Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid

[u/Ubiquitous_Hilarity]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omars-home-dc-searched-hsi-pre-dawn-raid

[u/Snrub1]

Hey look, it's the weaponization of the federal government that the Republicans warned us about.

[u/Just_another_grumble → u/Snrub1]

100% this if any Dem or Leftist did this there'd be immediate Conservative outrage.

because it's their Orange Emperor this is "Keeping America Safe!" and "merely enforcing existing immigration laws"

[u/Hurtzdonut13 → u/Just_another_grumble]

They were losing their shit because Congress people's phone numbers were picked up when investigating the J6rs.

[u/Ok-Sprinkles-5151 → u/Snrub1]

Dollars to donuts this is a pretext to denaturalize a sitting congresswomen.

A criminal investigation over paperwork filed by her father, who is dead. So they raid her home, looking for what?

Election interference at best, worse case they are going to denaturalize and deport her.

[u/ifuckzombies]

American Gestapo trying to intimidate an elected official.

[u/Qubed → u/ifuckzombies]

They're trying to deport her outright. Intimidation finished years ago.

[u/PeopleNose → u/Qubed]

Keep your 2nd amendment close folks

These people gonna learn today

[u/kenatogo → u/PeopleNose]

Sigh. If the 2nd amendment folks wanted to stand against tyranny they could have started 10 years ago

[u/AmyNotAmiable → u/kenatogo]

Most of the traditionally and loudly pro 2nd amendment folks are completely on board with this particular brand of tyranny. They're the future paramilitaries that'll tell you when the state has officially lost its monopoly on violence.

So it might not be a terrible idea for you to start putting a little bit of weight on the other side of the scales. Yes, you. Personally.

[u/OsBaculum → u/PeopleNose]

They didn't "learn" from executing white American citizens in the streets. In broad daylight. So I'm skeptical.

[u/anonyuser415 → u/ifuckzombies]

Vance was dead on that Watergate would barely make the news now.

[u/Ninevehenian → u/ifuckzombies]

Trying to take control over house and senate by intimidating the opposition.

Why aren't the officers in Guantanamo by now?

[u/Maxamillion-X72]

They raided her home over possible errors in her immigration paperwork filled out by her father when she was a child?

What a completely normal and non-fascist thing to do. /s

[u/mapoftasmania → u/Maxamillion-X72]

The Judge that signed that warrant needs to be disbarred. For a warrant to be valid, there needs to be probable cause that a crime was committed AND that evidence of the crime exists at that location. The latter is such a stretch as to point to judicial malpractice.

[u/okimlom → u/mapoftasmania]

Assuming they even got a warrant to do it.

This is intimidation, and this administration doesn't care about the process of law. The point isn't to try arrest her (though that would be a bonus) All they care about is intimidating people that opposes them.

[u/cflatjazz → u/okimlom]

Unfortunately I think you are correct. This was always the direction ICE was headed after the massive recruitment surge. An armed paramilitary force who is loyal to the administration, without proper oversight, willing to harass it's enemies.

[u/LividTacos → u/cflatjazz]

I was listening to NPR over the weekend or maybe on Friday and there was an interview with a former trainer that was discussing how much they cut from the training to get these guys pushed out into active duty and how they were cutting important things like PROPER USE OF FORCE.

[u/GetThePuckOut → u/LividTacos]

They didn't cut it.

"All use of force is allowed."

(recruits cheer) End of lesson.

How long did that take? 10 seconds?

[u/CH47Guy → u/GetThePuckOut]

"The use of excessive force in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers... has been approved."

[u/GetThePuckOut → u/CH47Guy]

"I hate Illinois nazis."

[u/DonaldMerwinElbert → u/cflatjazz]

You guys better be ready to take advantage of the brief moment where they'll kill some of their own, because that'll probably be your last good chance.

[u/KarateRoddy → u/okimlom]

As long as Fox viewers can share a post on FB saying she was raided, their mission was successful in their eyes.

They've never needed a shred of evidence to make the most ludicrous claims, so having an actual raid emboldens all the people that have called her treasonous, even if there is still not an ounce of evidence.

[u/SpaceGangsta → u/KarateRoddy]

I was able to listen to Jack Smith speak on Saturday night here in Utah. He had a lot of very interesting things to say(on things he was allowed to speak on). One was that this current administrations use of the DOJ is 100% in violation of the 5th amendment(due process). They’re targeting political opponents and manufacturing charges against them(even lying to courts) in order to prosecute them in the court of public opinion. It doesn’t matter what comes of it in the courts. Only that they get present who “you” are in their own words.

So it’s important to let your actions and words show who you really are.

[u/HoldingForGenova → u/KarateRoddy]

They've never needed a shred of evidence to make the most ludicrous claims

I would go further: intimidating and punishing her despite a lack of a warrant and lack of evidence is preferred. Scaring the loud brown lady into shutting up and knowing her place is the open purpose. "Evidence" and "warrants" are the legal process - this isn't about the legal process. This is about showing her how she "deserves" to be treated.

[u/OpheliaRainGalaxy → u/HoldingForGenova]

Somehow I don't think she's the type to roll over and show her belly that easy.

[u/Li_liminal_spaces → u/okimlom]

Optics as well… fox news can now talk for a news cycle about the raid on her house to distract from everything else also she is Muslim so scary.

[u/ButtEatingContest → u/okimlom]

Why would they even bother with warrants? They can detain people without due process, there's been no consequences for that. Since there's no consequences for anything they do, it wouldn't make sense for then to have any concerns for the law whatsoever.

[u/peon47 → u/okimlom]

If they got a warrant, they probably took 60 similar cases to a judge they knew was too lazy to read them all.

[u/kenatogo → u/okimlom]

Article says they got one, though it didnt specify what kind. Its also fox news

[u/Faintingheart → u/okimlom]

I believe Trump removed many immigration judges that were too woke. The remaining immigration judges tend to be loyal

[u/Thiseffingguy2 → u/Faintingheart]

That the administration deemed “too woke”*

[u/loki2002 → u/Faintingheart]

Unfortunately, the administration's purging of immigration judges plays no role in this since they are not part of the judicial branch and cannot sign off on search warrants. Assuming the warrant exists then it was signed off on by an actual judge.

[u/kc2syk → u/Faintingheart]

Immigration judges cannot issue warrants. Only article 3 judges and state judges can.

[u/Hadrian23 → u/mapoftasmania]

100% This is an abuse of their power. Any judge who signs off on an obviously bullshit warrant needs to lose their job and face some form of punishment.

[u/CletusCanuck → u/Hadrian23]

We know that ICE/DHS makes extensive use of administrative warrants - what are the chances they actually went to a judge for this one? The very idea that DHS could conduct a nighttime raid on a sitting Congresswoman's home, over allegedly misfiled childhood immigration paperwork, beggars belief. That they would do it using an administrative warrant would be just icing on the cake.

Edit: HSI allegedly obtained a judicial warrant for the search.

[u/Spifferiferfied → u/CletusCanuck]

I don’t see a world where she lets them in without a judicial warrant.

[u/WhenSummerIsGone → u/CletusCanuck]

allegedly misfiled childhood immigration paperwork

if they are going after this kind of thing, someone should point them at Elon and Melania.

[u/Sc0nnie → u/mapoftasmania]

Fox News claims DHS had a signed judicial warrant. DHS needs to prove it.

1). DHS has been using “administrative warrants” without judicial oversight all year. This is their standard procedure now.

2). Lyons wrote a secret memo specifically authorizing DHS to conduct (illegal) warrantless home invasions.

[u/va1us_taaurc → u/Sc0nnie]

Fox News be lying.

[u/StevenMC19 → u/mapoftasmania]

My guess is that they have an administrative warrant and not a judicial one.

But I mean, what is the law to a group that either ignores them or thinks they are above them anyway?

edit: ok then...I stand corrected. There is absolutely a judge that needs to be let go.

The Department of Justice, in a statement to Fox News, said, “Today in the Washington, D.C., area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice.”

[u/HarbingerOfFun → u/mapoftasmania]

The Judge that signed that warrant needs to be disbarred

Assuming it's a federal district judge that signed the warrant that wouldn't do anything. First, because you don't need to be an attorney to be a federal judge. Second, because district judges serve for life and the only way to remove them is impeachment.

Federal magistrate judges, on the other hand, have to be a member of the bar, disbarrment would, consequently, work in that instance.

Both kinds of superior court judges in DC also require bar membership, but HSI would have likely not utilized the local bench given the number of available judges in federal court.

[u/looking_good__ → u/mapoftasmania]

Interesting point, I do wonder if the judge knew who the person was or the DOJ just gave "evidence" to justify the raid without giving details of the person of interest. I heard a similar thing in the Jack Smith hearing about the phone records of Congress members. The judge didn't know it was Congress records. Not trying to make a pro-Trump thing, but it is possible the judge didn't know who the person was.

[u/dehydratedrain → u/looking_good__]

So judges are expected to sign the warrant without receiving any information about the person or the crime? Is this like, an every time thing, or only when they want plausible deniability?

[u/kenatogo → u/dehydratedrain]

They are not - 4th Amendment requires the warrant specify the persons, places, and things to be searched and seized

[u/Triggernpf → u/dehydratedrain]

One could argue warrants are to be made on the basis of evidence and not identity or popularity. I know for libel and slander public figures get it and can't sue unless people meet a higher threshold. Not aure if we want the same for congress people, I will think about it.

[u/ang3lofsnow → u/Maxamillion-X72]

My grandfather came here illegally in 1952. My conservative father must be sweating.

[u/pretti → u/ang3lofsnow]

Your conservative father will continue vote against his interests and believes something like this wouldn't happen to him.

[u/Inlerah → u/pretti]

"I'm one of the good ones, so obviously they aren't talking about me!"

Spoiler Alert: They were talking about him

[u/Embarrassed-Town-293 → u/ang3lofsnow]

It depends

[u/SoaplessTitanic → u/Embarrassed-Town-293]

The current administration basically proved this is how their immigration policy works when they let ~17,000 South Africans into the US while denying refugees from basically every other country. It’s funny too cause I don’t hear any conservatives complaining about how the influx of white immigrants is “destroying American culture” or whatever bullshit they usually parrot

[u/ryanv09 → u/SoaplessTitanic]

The racist dogwhistles became racist blowhorns in 2015.

America is tearing itself to shreds because white boomers couldn't handle having a black President who was smarter and more competent than any Republican in living memory.

[u/Cool-Mom-Lover → u/ang3lofsnow]

Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Youve got an opportunity to do something really great

[u/ButShowThemToMe → u/ang3lofsnow]

Let him know you reported him- you know, just so it gets sorted out by the government he believes in.

[u/Eris_AppleOfDiscord → u/Maxamillion-X72]

Didnt Melanie come firdt on a visa which didn't allow her to work? Then she worked in the us?

[u/LividTacos → u/Eris_AppleOfDiscord]

So did Elon.

[u/Routine-Amphibian450 → u/Eris_AppleOfDiscord]

Elon, too.

[u/o08 → u/Eris_AppleOfDiscord]

Epstein Visa loophole.

[u/Hadrian23 → u/Eris_AppleOfDiscord]

Rules are for Democrats and non rich whites, don't ya know?

[u/GameLovinPlayinFool → u/Maxamillion-X72]

They're testing the first steps of how far they can push purging opposition and denaturalizing citizens, and seeing how we react.

[u/MommyLovesPot8toes → u/GameLovinPlayinFool]

Where have you been the last 20 months?

This is not the testing phase. This is the "hurry up and take whatever cruel actions you can/want because time is running out."

[u/Althestane → u/Maxamillion-X72]

“Errors in paperwork” are, according to project2025, “lies to the state” and therefore cause to terminate their citizenship. And the minute they’re no longer a citizen, they’re here illegally, and illegal immigrants can be put in excessively cruel concentration camps and maybe deported to some random country where no one will ever hear from them again.

I’m willing to bet money that this is their intent. Whether or not they actually can pull it off, every step of the process gets them what they want - intimidation, delays that keep it in the news cycles, court cases that build legitimacy bit by bit even through failure, a lightning rod that distracts from other efforts, etc.

[u/Hadrian23]

I'll state the obvious - they're attacking an anti trump representative. The raid is obviously bullshit. It's a threat.

[u/Rocketa → u/Hadrian23]

She’s a US representative

[u/katara144 → u/Rocketa]

In other words, an elected sitting member of Congress.

[u/GregTheMad → u/katara144]

Doesn't make her bulletproof. With that Administration the opposite sadly.

[u/thatranger974 → u/GregTheMad]

Republicans Senators involved with Jan 6 sure think they are entitled to be bulletproof.

[u/Greennight209 → u/thatranger974]

They sure didn’t act bulletproof when they were running for their lives.

[u/piddlesthethug → u/Greennight209]

Specifically a certain leader of a certain justice department.

[u/depp-fsrv → u/GregTheMad]

The article says :

"Two sources close to the investigation say the search stems from a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman's immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child."

Ilhan Onar came to the US at the age of 12 in March 1995. 31 years ago, again 31 years ago. Now she is a US Representative. I think all the background checks were done at the time. This is just a stupid stunt by Trump because he can't take any criticism.

[u/ragin2cajun → u/Rocketa]

1933 Hitler also went after political opponents right before elections as the chancellor.

[u/jt32470 → u/Rocketa]

They're going to say she lied on her US Citizenship application and therefore her citizenship is revoked.

They've done it to several people and wouldn't put it past them to attemp to do it to Omar.

[u/Fickle-Molasses-903 → u/Rocketa]

Republicans: She's brown, so we have to remind our base: 'Brown is worse than high gas prices. So go vote to keep America white.'

[u/Silent-Land1218 → u/Fickle-Molasses-903]

White guy here. We need more people like her. Someone please help us, old white men are not the answer. From an old white guy.

[u/Hadrian23 → u/Rocketa]

Fixed, ty.

[u/Joshd30 → u/Hadrian23]

This doesn't actually convey the blunt bigotry here - they're attempting to intimidate an anti-Trump member of Congress more because she's an immigrant woman than because she's anti-Trump.

They been tiptoeing closer and closer to the full-blown Nazi line so methodically that far too many people haven't even noticed they already crossed it awhile ago

[u/buzzathlon → u/Joshd30]

Why not both? They start with the easier targets. First they came for the immigrant Congress members. And I did not speak out because I am not an immigrant Congress member.

[u/hightrix → u/buzzathlon]

It is absolutely both. If she were praising trump and lieing about how great he is, this would not have happened.

[u/brekus → u/Joshd30]

When they started murdering people in the streets with impunity it was pretty clear.

[u/Kabbooooooom → u/brekus]

Several months before that, they started targeting and detaining American citizens solely due to their race. It was pretty clear ever since that point.

My wife was one of them. She was born in North Carolina. Targeted for not being white while she was walking to work, then assaulted and detained by ICE even though she didn’t resist and had ID on her. Our lawyer told us this had happened to hundreds of Americans already, so it’s probably thousands by now. I don’t know, it’s too depressing for me to check up on. The fact that the news doesn’t report on this should tell you something too.

[u/SchrodingersRSVP → u/Joshd30]

The timing around this makes it almost impossible to deny the racist angle. Trump just tried to stir up an anti-Somali pogrom in MN.

[u/SicTim → u/SchrodingersRSVP]

This administration has withheld about half a billion dollars in Medicaid funds from Minnesota so far.

Imagine if Democrats gain power, and start withholding federal funds from red states?

An administration that picks winners and losers among the states, based on how they go in elections, is beyond un-American.

[u/Hurtzdonut13 → u/Joshd30]

It's not even been a week since Trump was openly calling for a pogrom in Minnesota against Somali-Americans. However, the media is still too busy covering why El Sayed hasn't sufficiently condemned a twitch streamer yet.

[u/Ninevehenian → u/Hadrian23]

It's civil war. They are using force to take power, aiming Guns to make the opposition hide.

It should not be sugar-coated or seen out of the midterm / j6 context.

[u/Chaos-Cortex → u/Ninevehenian]

Democrats need to put these Nazis in their place if there was ever a time.

[u/Hadrian23 → u/Ninevehenian]

Oh I'm aware.

[u/Adventurous_Salt → u/Ninevehenian]

Exactly. I don't understand how Americans can not understand that Republicans aren't playing democracy anymore, they're playing for keeps. America just keeps rolling over with every turn though, there's just no resistance.

[u/BearOk9010 → u/Hadrian23]

Yep, they're acting as brown shirts and attacking trump's political enemies. Surprise, they're actual nazis.

[u/Bender_2024 → u/Hadrian23]

Rember when Donnie talked about a weponized DoJ? Of course you do.

[u/theLocoFox → u/Hadrian23]

We need governors, if any actual patriots with power still exist, to order the arrest of these lawless, untrained thugs operating in their border. Republicans aren’t afraid to act and let the courts sort it out, even when the courts never do. Meanwhile, Democrats will sit there wringing their hands, gaming out every possible outcome and trying to cause the least amount of kerfuffle, right up until the handcuffs close around those same wringing hands. Fucking COWARDS DO SOMETHING TO SAVE THIS COUNTRY!

[u/mescad → u/theLocoFox]

Mayor in this case, since it was in Washington DC.

[u/LowKeyJustMe → u/Hadrian23]

Every single officer, official, paper pusher, and whoever else that was involved with organizing this needs to be charged with treason.

[u/77NorthCambridge → u/Hadrian23]

I'm sure Republicans will be complaining about the agents going through her underwear drawer.

[u/Platonic_Eye_Deal]

Nazis continuing to do Nazi shit and Nazi propaganda outlets continuing to cheer them on.

[u/LividTacos → u/Platonic_Eye_Deal]

While telling us that its rude to call them Nazis.

[u/RippinFissure → u/LividTacos]

But also, fuck everyone else's feelings!

[u/HereOnCompanyTime → u/RippinFissure]

They kind of sound like a bunch of snowflakes.

[u/Unlucky-Candidate198 → u/LividTacos]

Been saying it since he was elected the 2nd time yet met with weird looks. They’re following a very similar path to the ww2 nazi party. From fascist police to proto-death camps to labelling the undesirables in society (leaked documents about having trans, queer, autistic peoples wear labels, immigrants too). Beefing with neighbours for resources. Starting wars. The list is shockingly long. Project 2025 basically details their whole gross plan, unaccounting for the technocrats making their own push against the populace.

If it quacks like a marrionette duck with a ruzzian puppeteer, if it looks like a…

[u/Boibi → u/Unlucky-Candidate198]

I mentioned to my family that they were making concentration camps and their response was "but they're not death camps." Like wtf. They have to actually be killing people for you to care?

[u/hollaback_girl → u/LividTacos]

"I WaS InDePeNdEnT BuT YoU KePt CaLlInG NaZiS "nAzIs" So I HaVe No ChOiCe BuT tO vOtE fOr NaZiS tO TeAcH YoU A LeSsOn!"

[u/No_big_whoop]

Straight up politically motivated harassment

[u/JazzyJockJeffcoat → u/No_big_whoop]

More akin to swatting. They'll do this to every Democrat they can.

Vote, folks. The madness must end.

[u/skyblueerik → u/JazzyJockJeffcoat]

Yeah, don't be surprised if after the election Democratic politicians and journalists started getting arrested.

[u/Cloaked42m → u/JazzyJockJeffcoat]

Swatting by federal agents with the power to disappear you.

[u/anonyuser415 → u/Cloaked42m]

Swatting being, of course, attempted murder.

[u/HUT2Moon → u/No_big_whoop]

Many Trumpers still think Obama was corrupt because he weaponized the DOJ. Insane levels of projection.

[u/zetia2]

Kind of weird when Melania and Elon Musk actually committed visa fraud

[u/spacegiantsrock → u/zetia2]

Melania came on an Epstein Visa.

[u/DAFUQisaLOMMY → u/spacegiantsrock]

Yeah, like they said: visa fraud

[u/TheReddestOrange]

The judge that signed off needs to be investigated. The agents that carried it out need to be held accountable. The people that directed it need to be imprisoned; they are a dangerous threat to civil society.

[u/UANerd2028 → u/TheReddestOrange]

Win both houses in November and let the investigations commence!!!

[u/Hadrian23 → u/UANerd2028]

Doing what we can, and yes VOTE GOD DAMN IT. but, anyone else slightly suspicious that Mike will refuse to seat any newly elected reps and senators until "all elections are investigated"?

[u/fellindeep23 → u/TheReddestOrange]

I'm not convinced it was a judicial warrant. Probably administrative like the rest of ICE bs.

[u/ArialBear]

So we’re in a straight fascist country

[u/freexanarchy → u/ArialBear]

I guess the Jan 6 coup wasn’t enough proof. And the countless selling out to Russia even before he was president. And all the ice executions and kidnappings and concentration camps… wasn’t enough.

[u/bluechip1996 → u/ArialBear]

Yes

[u/LizardChaser → u/ArialBear]

There need to be consequences for the judges that sign off on these warrants. It's not enough to take them off the bench, they need to lose their licenses. If going fascist results in them losing their livelihood, they will think twice before signing them.

[u/CatsPlusTats → u/ArialBear]

Uhhh for the past few years, yes.

[u/happyegg1000 → u/ArialBear]

Not to discount the absolute damage Trump has done but it’s been looking this way for a while.

[u/iamspacedad]

I don't think it has clocked to a lot of people that fascism is here, and fascism is doing what fascism always does. Wake the fuck up and lock in to resist it. Don't fall for the leftpunching collaborators centrists who want to make nice with the fascists and the oligarchs. Lock in and get organizing with the progressives & leftists to fight back.

[u/Salty-Bid1597]

If the Dems don't go shock and awe on his entire family and crime syndicate when they get into power, using all the precedent he has handed them, they are fucking morons.

[u/keith2600 → u/Salty-Bid1597]

Unfortunately we have even more precedent of them being fucking morons so I wouldn't get your hopes up

[u/Waste-Time-2440]

Just imagine Obama sending law enforcement into the home of a far-right GOP Congressman's home, three weeks before the election, to "investigate" their nanny or housekeeper's tax and immigration status.

Fox News: "Barack Hussein Obama's jackbooted thugs invade home of duly elected congressman with nothing more than vague suspicions of minor paperwork problems. The White House refuses to name its supposed anonymous source. Claiming electoral interference, the Congressman demands an apology and will join us shortly for 20 uninterrupted minutes while we dig into the latest abuse by a President whose own immigration paperwork is considered by many to be deeply suspect."

If you think fascism isn't here yet, your head is in the sand.

[u/J-the-Kidder]

I'd like to think you couldn't make this stuff up, but here we are:

The raid stems from a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman's immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child.

My oh my. Digging deep into the fascist bag of tricks on this one.

[u/elihu → u/J-the-Kidder]

I'm having trouble imagining what sort of relevant evidence they could possibly have expected to find at her house.

[u/zombiereign → u/elihu]

Doesnt matter. Its all optics

[u/elihu → u/zombiereign]

It's supposed to matter to the judge issuing the warrant. If he or she can't explain why the warrant was issued, it might be cause for removal in a just world. Maybe there will be consequences at some point down the line if ever the clowns that are running things now are removed from power.

[u/ObjectiveHat26]

Fascists doing fascist shit. All MAGA are traitors.

[u/mgill006]

The Grand Old Pedo’s plan is to escalate fed action to get a violent response as cover for Insurrection Acting , unconstitutional federal meddling into what is constitutionally protected state controlled midterm election.

We’ve seen it all before. We heard DJT ask GA officials to “find” votes, and Jack Smith proved Trump planned the J6 Insurrection. The Oval Office Idiot will do anything to stop the midterms and Democrats from taking Congress.

Voting won’t be enough. Be a poll watcher, yes, but be prepared to take to the streets to peacefully protest en masse to protect our constitution.

There, my version of shouting into the wind at an oncoming storm!

[u/socalspawn]

The raid is a weaponization of the Department of Justice and Homeland Security to target a prominent political rival and appease the MAGA base. WTF has happened to America? The comments on Faux News express genuine joy at seeing her home raided ("Best Monday I’ve ever had and it’s only 7 am"). Donald is a disease.

Edit: typo

[u/kinotravels]

This is some next level fascist bullshit. We’re not forgetting that Trump is all over the Epstein files.

[u/mikeybagodonuts → u/kinotravels]

Not seeing any raids over that.

[u/FalstaffsMind]

Sounds like something Putin would do to a political rival.

[u/blue_quark]

Is this Trump’s October surprise he alluded to last week? Let me answer that - yes, it was a politically driven search warrant.

[u/apoca1ypse12]

Its time to impeach that mofo

[u/ReddSaidFredd → u/apoca1ypse12]

This all could have been avoided if they would have done it after J6.

[u/mutantmanifesto → u/apoca1ypse12]

We did. Twice if memory serves.

[u/chilcochillin]

A forty year slide from trickle down, to unfettered capitalism, to dark money, to billionaires are untouchable Titans, to fascism. And an American public slept, lulled by a media dominated by billionaires who played bait and switch. Always with the fear of others, when the real threat was always within.

[u/4thdensity44]

We need every person in the military to remove this dictator from our house

[u/inebriateddandhated → u/4thdensity44]

Yeah, modern service members aren't coming to save you.

A lot of them are in because they had nothing going for them.

They are not likely to disobey the only thing keeping them alive.

Plus the US has spend millions and decades learn to better brainwash troops.

[u/whetherchannel]

MinneAPOLIS, Minnesota here: that’s our girl. That is our fearless leader. She’s the one who stood ten toes ready to fight when that dude came and did his weird little vinegar attack thing at a press conference. You want to fix this country? Elect your own officials exactly like her. Hell, elect somebody half as left and a quarter as passionate, that person would still be better than 9/10 of every other elected official in the country.

[u/Caymonki]

On Indigenous People Day no less. This regime likes fear and chaos.

[u/kevonicus]

And they will stupidly compare it to Trump’s home being raided even though that was totally justified since he didn’t cooperate for months before that. Just watch.

[u/No_Throat_2356 → u/kevonicus]

Stealing 100s of classified documents and deliberately taking them home is actually illegal, as is lying to the FBI abut it, as is disclosing those documents to journalists and donors and foreign nationals, as is storing those documents unsecured in the fucking bathroom and publicly accessible spaces. 

See? It’s totally the same as when an immigrant dad mis-dots an “i” on a form for his child 30yrs ago. 

[u/padizzledonk]

The real villain/criminal here is the Judge that approved and signed this search warrant

They need to be impeached and removed

Im really serious when i say this- If Democrats dont get real nasty and weild the power we hopefully hand them next month with extreme prejudice and ruthlessness and dont start investigating and removing a lot of these people Trump has embedded in the Judiciary we are in really serious trouble, like way worse than we obviously are right now.

Emil Bove is a federal judge for life, he is an example of one who needs to be removed. Aileen Cannon is another, but there are many

[u/dragunityag → u/padizzledonk]

They'll never be able to remove a judge. You need 66 senators for that unfortunately.

But they absolutely need to make their life a living hell. Constant investigations into every aspect of their lives.

[u/AGrandNewAdventure]

It's amazing how few negative comments there are in here right now. It's almost as if the bot farm that is responsible for pumping out all the negative political content was obliterated by Ukraine, or something.

[u/queeso]

There is no excuse for any Democrat in leadership not to come out publicly and vocally condemning this abuse of power. Sure, it’s the federal government and they can't stop them, but there needs to be unity from every Democrat.

[u/Wooderson13]

We’ve jumped the shark.

[u/Yeeeoow]

Wait.

Wasn't checking the phone records of republican politicians that trump was courting for a coup wraponising law enforcement?

Weird how this is ok though.

It's almost as if nothing means anything.

[u/etxipcli]

So an actual malicious attack on a congressperson. I'm sure MAGA Mike will stand up for his branch.

[u/Upstairs-Thanks4193]

This is the kind of whackadoo MAGA stuff that people around Trump kept from happening in the first term. I'm surprised he hasn't had Todd Blanche announce they are looking into Obama's birth certificate yet. What a complete horror show this administration is.

[u/c0satnd]

It’s really hard to believe / swallow this is purely immigration related. Search warrants have a staleness requirement and I find it incredible that a federal judge thinks that there is recent evidence of the congresswoman holding documents or information related to a “possible” criminal (not civil but criminal) immigration violation that might have occurred years or even decades ago. Something else is going on or there’s just straight shenanigans and even the judiciary lost its values.

[u/chocolateadvanced_ → u/c0satnd]

If at this point (having a firing squad execution live-streamed, giving up cities to bomb, foreign trades, baseless raids of anti-Trump government officials) we still have faith that Conservatives puppets are going to follow the law, we might as well just enjoy what we can of 2026 before we have botched elections from now on.

My hope is that everyone votes with critical thinking, but even that’s a pipe dream when we have Trump supporters and conservative Californians clapping like trained seal pups at the thought of Israel “Iran” bombing us.

[u/Latter_Geologist_472 → u/c0satnd]

It was HSI that investigated her. They would be the ones that could get her convicted, citizenship rescinded, and deported.

However the evidence they are suggesting would only implicate her deceased father under normal circumstances

But this isn't normal. It is chaos. It is performative.

North Korea punishes multiple generations of one person's alleged crimes. They also hold public executions.

Oops, all fascism.

[u/Nicaspin]

The US has a serious democracy problem. This is not normal.

[u/ser_pounce1]

Fascist fucks. Also, fuck fox news

[u/doublethink_1984]

All from a party who claimed Biden weaponized DHS and the DOJ.

Disgraceful and seditionst

[u/scapini_tarot]

they know they're going to lose the midterms, and this is a strategy to make any Congressional investigations into Republican corruption in 2027 look like political payback instead of justice.

[u/-Murmaider-]

And the fascism takes another step forward.

[u/FrostyWalrus2]

Curious what the warrant read and who signed it. You can't just go flipping houses upside down for a paperwork mistake that she didn't even commit and is roughly 30 years removed.

If it wasn't already obvious, there's something terribly wrong here.

[u/Unique-Coffee5087]

Reuters link, because I don't want to click on Fox

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-launches-immigration-raid-democratic-congresswoman-ilhan-omars-home-fox-news-2026-10-12/

[u/Fun_Buy]

Is this the beginning of Trump and Russell Voight’s surprise? Are they taking out political opposition by any means?

[u/dorkofthepolisci]

Oooh, so we’re at the “targeting political opponents with the judicial system” part of authoritarian creep

Fantastic/s

(No seriously, this kind of abuse of power is right out of the fascist/authoritarian playbook)

[u/OptimisticSkeleton]

So they’ve officially become the new SS now.

Fuck every Nazi and fuck every one who follows the Nazis.

[u/reximhotep]

Wtf? This is all so wrong and ordinary officers going along with this is horrifying. This is exactly what everyone was talking about with the" I was just following orders murdering people" Defense... this wasn't me trump made me do it.

[u/CaiusRemus → u/reximhotep]

The police almost always side with the person who pays them. Even during revolutions the police stay loyal to the very end.

[u/Super901]

This is totally fucked and WHY did I just read a goddamn article on foxnews?

DID YOU SEE THIS SENTENCE?! ---> "During her tenure in Congress, she has been plagued by allegations that she married her brother in 2009 in an alleged immigration fraud scheme."

No qualifiers, no nothing, just a horrifying, unfounded pile of bullshit, left hanging. Fucking eye cancer fox news is

[u/3MATX]

We really are at the end stage of peace being a viable option.  Fuck those blood thirsty republicans that have forced this and are frothing at the mouth for violence.  

[u/UANerd2028 → u/3MATX]

The path of peace splits this November and in 2028.

I naively believe we can simply vote out MAGA and avoid any full-scale violence, but something tells me they won't be going away quietly.

[u/SodaCanBob → u/UANerd2028]

The Confederates never went away, why would MAGAts?

[u/horceface]

I'm voting for whichever president promises to send ICE to search foreign national Rafael Cruz's house.

[u/Ishaq128]

What a fucking piece of shit this admin is. She needs to sue them into the ground.

[u/Infidel8]

It will be mind-blowing to future historians that there was a widely available incredibly detailed plan for Trump's fascist takeover.

And yet 2/3 of Americans decided not to vote against it.

[u/Few-Pen5351]

What about the participants in the Epstein files who were named over 38,000 times? You know crimes against children?

[u/Even-Cartographer864]

Government intimidation? What happened to those classified documents in mar-a-lago that jack smith testified about?

[u/panthercave]

Next - Melania. She ain't no genius

[u/mistersuave]

This is a litmus test. You let this slide, it will happen to you whether you like it or not.

[u/_Debauchery]

Democratic leadership and officials need to be blasting the air waves loudly and vocally about how anyone involved in these political prosecutions and/or election interference will be branded as a traitor and dealt with as such. If they dont expect consequences for their actions why would they stop?

[u/EaNasirbestdeals]

The U.S. is now officially fascist.

[u/CapnTugg]

Would like to know the name of the judge who signed the warrant.

[u/melodypowers]

They are looking for fraud on the immigration paperwork her father filled out 30 years ago?

[u/Dock_Ellis45]

Sounds like they're trying to intimidate elected officials at the behest of the president now. Fascist fucks.

[u/NCC75567]

That's some Nazi shit.

[u/A_Poor_Miser]

This is fucking insane. 

[u/AlternativePizza3391]

They are harassing her, insane

[u/the-ish-i-say]

Brown shirt fucks

[u/Fillyerboot]

The Fascist States of America everyone. 

[u/strolpol]

Whichever judge signed off on this should lose their job and license to practice law

[u/C1andestino]

We should not tolerate harassment of our elected representatives by the executive branch.

[u/millos15]

May trump voters be mocked for centuries

[u/Caymonki]

Just a reminder they didn’t raid McConnell’s home for stealing from the federal government for 3 months.

[u/Shot_Squash_9772]

They figured she was smuggling illegals and had them in her basement?

It is pure intimidation and retaliatory bullshit from orange chump.

[u/TransitJohn]

Now do Melania and Elon.

[u/mister_obvious_2nd]

This is what facsism looks like. Intimidating members of Congress.

[u/Quick_Turnover]

I love that all the Constitution diehards never mention the Fourth Amendment...

[u/FancyEmployee8672]

where are you small goverment fuckos at!?

[u/TellTaleTimeLord]

I dont have the energy to deal with the cult today lol

[u/astrozombie2012]

Fucking fascists

[u/gigatoe]

Does anyone know the judge who signed the warrant for this raid?