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Ilhan Omar denies knowledge of criminal probe into immigration allegations

Border czar Tom Homan confirmed an ongoing investigation into allegations involving the congresswoman.

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'He's been saying some dumb s**t': Ilhan Omar MELTS DOWN when reporter presses her on Homan probe into brother

What this story says

  • Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed an ongoing criminal investigation by the Department of Homeland Security into allegations involving Representative Ilhan Omar.
  • Ilhan Omar told Fox News Digital she has not been made aware of any such investigation.
  • Omar has faced accusations of marrying her brother to help him fraudulently obtain immigration status, which she has denied.
  • Tom Homan stated that no one is above the law if they commit immigration violations or marriage fraud.

Who covered it

Left 10%(1)Centre 10%(1)Right 80%(8)

Percentages are shares of the 10 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

61/100

Hype

41/100

10 sources · methodology

Missing from the left

Only 1 of the 10 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

A reader who follows the left would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed on Sunday that the Department of Homeland Security's investigations division is conducting an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations concerning Representative Ilhan Omar. Homan stated that if immigration violations or marriage fraud have occurred, no individual is exempt from legal consequences.

Omar, a Democrat representing Minnesota, told Fox News Digital that she has not been informed of any criminal investigation involving her. She has previously denied allegations that she married her brother to assist him in fraudulently obtaining immigration status in the United States. Omar has described these claims as false and ridiculous.

Disagreement on Omar's knowledge of the investigation

Tom Homan confirmed an "ongoing criminal investigation" into the congresswoman. However, Ilhan Omar stated to Fox News Digital that she has not been made aware of any such investigation. She also told Fox News Digital that "they have not" contacted her regarding an investigation.

What the coverage left out

None of the right-rated reports mention the specific details of the allegations beyond marriage fraud, nor do they include any statements from Omar's legal representatives. The centre-rated report also does not include these details.

Coverage settled. We checked this 50 times and stopped on 24 Sept 2026, 12:45. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

1 rated outlet

We have not written our reading of the left coverage of this story. The left-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Centre

1 rated outlet

  • The centre-rated report stated that Representative Ilhan Omar told Fox News she has not been made aware of any criminal investigation into her. This followed White House border czar Tom Homan's statement that the Department of Homeland Security is investigating allegations involving Omar.

Right

8 rated outlets

  • Right-rated reports focused on Ilhan Omar's reaction when pressed by a reporter about the investigation. The Blaze reported Omar calling Tom Homan a liar and stating he had "been saying some dumb s**t." Other reports highlighted Omar's denial of any federal contact regarding an investigation, while noting Homan's confirmation of the probe into immigration fraud allegations. Several reports mentioned Vice President JD Vance's prior claim that the Justice Department was looking into allegations against Omar, including claims she married her brother and committed fraud.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Ilhan Omar denies knowledge of criminal probe into immigration…?
Of the 10 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 10% are rated left, 10% are rated centre, 80% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Ilhan Omar denies knowledge of criminal probe into immigration… left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 10 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Ilhan Omar denies knowledge of criminal probe into immigration… biased?
Ilhan Omar denies knowledge of criminal probe into immigration allegations is one event reported by 10 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Ilhan Omar denies knowledge of criminal probe into immigration…?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Ilhan Omar denies knowledge of criminal probe into immigration…?
10 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What has Ilhan Omar been accused of?
Ilhan Omar has been accused of marrying her brother to help him fraudulently obtain immigration status in the United States. She has vehemently denied these allegations, calling them false and ridiculous.
Has Ilhan Omar been made aware of a criminal investigation?
Ilhan Omar told Fox News Digital that she has not been made aware of any criminal investigation into her. This statement was made after Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed an ongoing investigation.
What did Tom Homan say about the investigation?
Tom Homan confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security is conducting an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations involving Representative Ilhan Omar. He also stated that no one is above the law if they commit immigration violations or marriage fraud.

Read it at the source

10 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

1

Centre

1

Right

8

Not rated

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

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