BREAKING: Ilhan Omar Is Not The Congresswoman’s Real Name, Fox News Reports

A battle over sealed search warrant records has thrust Rep. Ilhan Omar’s name into the spotlight, with a federal filing identifying the Minnesota Democrat as Ilhan Nur Said Elmi and Fox News Digital reporting that two sources said it was her birth name.

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro filed the motion Wednesday to oppose requests by several media outlets to unseal records connected to the search of Omar’s Washington home. Prosecutors said investigators had not finished executing the warrant.

“Before the Court are three Applications to unseal ex parte materials and proceedings related to a federal search warrant for the personal residence in the District of Columbia of Congresswoman Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar…” the motion begins.

Omar has not been charged with a crime. The use of another name in the filing does not establish fraud, and the allegations have not been proven in court.

Two people familiar with the investigation, including a law enforcement source, told Fox News Digital that Ilhan Nur Said Elmi is the congresswoman’s birth name. The outlet reported that Ilhan Omar is not her “real name.”

“That’s not her real name,” one source told Fox News Digital when asked about the filing’s use of “a/k/a Ilhan Adbullahi Omar” language.

Omar’s attorneys did not respond to the outlet’s request for comment.

The dispute over her name could have implications for government documents she has submitted over the years, according to Nathan Hansen, a former federal immigration judge in Minnesota.

Hansen told Fox News Digital that a court finding that Omar had spent her “entire life under an alias” could bring a broad range of paperwork under scrutiny.

“You think of all the types of documents somebody like her might have filled out,” he said. “There’d be federal student loan and student aid applications, maybe federal housing related applications, maybe public assistance applications, passport applications, passport information and driver’s license information, Real I.D. information [and] voting information.”

Hansen also discussed possible charges, though Omar has not been charged with a crime.

“Sometimes they might say that that would be a wire fraud charge, they always add that one,” said Hansen. “And that’s pretty broad. But, you know, a lot of these documents are sworn under penalty of perjury.”

“If this is not, like, a real legal name, it’s got some legal backing to it that every type of government form she’s filled out in her entire existence might be called into question,” Hansen said.

Omar has publicly acknowledged that she has no birth certificate. Her official House biography lists her birthplace as Mogadishu, Somalia, and her birthday as Oct. 14, 1982. She has said she arrived in the United States with her family as refugees in 1995, when she was a child.

Conservative commentator Will Chamberlain posted the motion on X and suggested that the “DOJ believes [Omar] is present in the United States under a false identity.” That was Chamberlain’s interpretation of the filing.

POLL: Should Ilhan Omar Be Deported If Found Guilty Of Immigration Fraud?

Fox News Digital first reported during the Oct. 12 search of Omar’s home that investigators were examining whether she or her father had committed fraud on immigration paperwork.

During the pre-dawn search, investigators obtained Omar’s DNA and seized her personal phone and passport, according to the outlet. Fox News Digital also reported that federal investigators questioned her sister, Sahra Noor, last week.

Omar has accused President Donald Trump’s administration of using federal law enforcement to punish a political opponent.

“This raid by Trump’s DHS is an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies,” she said in a statement on X.

“For a decade, Donald Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back,” the post continued. “Now, those attacks have escalated to a pointless federal raid. The Congresswoman has done nothing wrong. No president should be able to use the power of the federal government to intimidate his political enemies.”

In her first public interview after the search, Omar also faced questions about her marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. She has long denied allegations that Elmi, whom she married in 2009, was her brother.

The two divorced in 2017. Omar won election to Congress the following year and married political consultant Tim Mynett, her third husband, in 2020.

Appearing with MS NOW host Chris Hayes, Omar again dismissed the allegations about Elmi as “insane.”

“You’re not related to him at all?” Hayes asked. “There’s not some weird kernel of truth…?”

“Not to my knowledge,” she replied.

POLL: Should Ilhan Omar Be Deported If Found Guilty Of Immigration Fraud?