On Monday, progressive Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's residence was raided by federal agents.
While all sorts of speculation has circulated about why Omar was raided (there is a separate financial investigation into Omar, as well), rumors in circulation almost uniformly returned to one major theory: her immigration status.
According to emails obtained and reviewed by the outlet, Omar's staff allegedly changed the congresswoman's birthdate in public records.
These alterations apparently came after Omar was elected to Congress in 2018.
And the New York Post lays out plainly why this is such a big deal: "If the congresswoman is actually one year older than she’s claimed to be, that would mean she couldn’t have legally become a U.S. citizen in 2000, critics contend."
Omar's birthdate has long been publicly listed as Oct. 4, 1981.
However, according to the emails obtained by the New York Post, it appears that in May 2019, the above date was shifted forward by one year, to 1982.