(The Center Square) – Homeland Security Investigations executed a warrant on U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington D.C. home early Monday morning.
With reports first breaking around 8 a.m., the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed the raid in a statement to The Center Square.
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