Federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C.-area home early Monday, beginning around 6 a.m. according to Fox News Digital.

The Justice Department confirmed HSI agents carried out the warrant as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation, though it did not name Omar or describe the probe's nature.

A BBC crew saw several agents at the home, some carrying boxes to a van, and the street around the residence was blocked off as agents removed boxes labeled "Seized Property Evidence."

Omar, who was first elected to the House in 2018 and represents Minnesota's 5th District, was not confirmed to be at the home during the search.

The search came just 22 days before the November midterm elections, in which Omar is running for reelection, and that proximity has become the story's central controversy.

The Justice Department has a longstanding written policy barring prosecutors from timing investigative steps to influence an election, and an unwritten practice of avoiding overt steps against candidates within 60 days of an election — a guideline not always followed, as when FBI Director James Comey disclosed developments in the Clinton email probe 11 days before the 2016 election.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Whip Katherine Clark and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar said the search was "deeply disturbing" and raised questions about "continued corrupt weaponization" of the federal government against Trump's adversaries.

Omar said she was "ok" and accused the administration of weaponizing federal law enforcement. "For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns," she wrote on X. "This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced."

Her communications director, Jacklyn Rogers, called the raid "an outrageous abuse of power" by the Trump administration and said the congresswoman "has done nothing wrong," per BBC.

Trump told reporters he had "nothing to do" with the search, saying it was "really up to the DOJ," while calling Omar a "terrible person." Some Republicans welcomed the action, with Rep.

Tom Emmer declaring "ACCOUNTABILITY IS COMING!" CAIR-Minnesota announced a rally in solidarity with Omar.

According to NBC News, one person familiar with the probe described a yearslong criminal investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. attorney in Minneapolis and the Justice Department, involving whistleblowers, documents and witness testimony, dealing partly with immigration and fraud but going beyond those things.

Sources told ABC News the investigation relates to Omar's immigration paperwork, and Fox News reported the paperwork was filled out by her late father when she was a child.

Vice President JD Vance has previously claimed, without offering evidence, that Omar "definitely committed immigration fraud" — allegations her office dismissed as fabricated and defamatory.

Border czar Tom Homan confirmed a judge-signed search warrant was executed Monday but declined to get into specifics.

Omar, the first Somali American elected to Congress and one of the first two Muslim-American women in the House, has been a repeated target of Trump and his administration.

Days before the search, Trump said at a Tennessee rally that Omar comes from a country of "crime and squalor" and suggested Vance "and our people" were investigating her; hours after the raid, he attacked her Somali origins at an Ohio rally, prompting the crowd to shout "Deport."

Omar has said Trump's rhetoric has caused threats against her to "skyrocket," including an attack in January when an assailant sprayed her with vinegar at a Minneapolis town hall — the attacker was sentenced to 14 months in prison.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called the search an abuse of power, and Senator Tina Smith called it a "transparent attempt to interfere in our elections."

The investigation's full scope remains unclear, and Omar has not been charged with any crime.

The search lands amid heightened attention to Minnesota, where the Justice Department has charged more than a dozen people in social services fraud cases, including the $250 million Feeding Our Future case, which Trump has repeatedly invoked while disparaging people of Somali descent.

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General last month recommended that department leaders prioritize guidance to agents and prosecutors about actions that could "foreseeably affect an impending election," including overt investigative steps.

With early voting in Minnesota starting later this week, the raid's political fallout — and any legal resolution — remains open as Election Day approaches.