Canada

Ottawa, October 13, 2026. Major Canadian outlets are treating the search of Ilhan Omar's home on Monday, October 12, first and foremost as a story of American politics, a little over three weeks before the November 3 vote.

The National Post calls it a “dramatic escalation” in Donald Trump's confrontation with the Minnesota lawmaker. According to the paper, agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative arm of the immigration police, searched her home in the Washington area in the early morning. Omar wrote on X: “Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and to turn federal law enforcement into a political tool,” citing ten years of attacks by Trump. The paper notes that she says she is “okay.”

The Globe and Mail quotes the Justice Department spokesperson: HSI executed a “court-authorized search warrant” as part of an “ongoing federal investigation.” The paper reports, citing Fox News Digital and unidentified sources, that the investigation concerns immigration documents filled out by the lawmaker's late father when she was a child. It recalls that Trump has portrayed the Somali community as a threat to Minnesota, that he called Somalis “garbage,” and that civil rights advocates criticize his rhetoric toward minorities. The paper also mentions Trump's remarks about Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan.

CBC highlights the reaction of House Democrats. Hakeem Jeffries calls the operation “deeply disturbing” and says Trump's “violent mass deportation machine” has “come down on the home” of a lawmaker and her family. Together with Katherine Clark and Pete Aguilar, he promises to demand accountability from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department for an “abuse of power.” The network stresses that the nature and scope of the investigation remain unclear, since the information comes from anonymous sources cited by the Associated Press.

Tom Homan, the White House border chief, confirmed to Fox News that an “investigation had been going on for a while” and that a warrant was executed that morning, without providing further details.

Overall, the three outlets leave little room for the administration's defense beyond official statements. They place the episode within a series of Trump attacks on Omar, the first Somali American member of Congress, and within the Republicans' fight to hold on to their slim majorities in Congress.