2026年10月16日 美国东部时间下午6:16 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
美国国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马伦表示，联邦特工在搜查明尼苏达州民主党众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔华盛顿住所的同一天，执行了多份搜查令。在周五参加一档播客节目时，马伦将正在进行的调查描述为“证据充分”，并暗示协调实施的移民欺诈案件可依据联邦反敲诈勒索法进行起诉。
在接受“查理·柯克秀”主持人安德鲁·科尔维特的采访时，马伦主动透露多份搜查令已于周一被执行，补充称一名法官已批准该执法行动，调查人员预计将向大陪审团提交案件。
奥马尔尚未被指控任何罪行。她称此次调查是出于政治动机。
“她的住所——或者说那不是我们唯一执行搜查令的地方，”马伦在提及这名明尼苏达州女议员的华盛顿住所时说道，“当天还有多份其他搜查令被执行。”
“我们有法官签署了文件，我们预计能够将案件提交给大陪审团，”马伦透露了此次行动规模的新细节，“但我可以告诉你们，除非我们确信这并非出于政治目的，否则我们不会推进调查，特朗普总统也不会愿意推进。现在他们却想将此事政治化。这名议员（指奥马尔）想把这件事往自己身上揽。这再次关乎我们执行国家法律，而且这是一个证据充分的案件。”
特朗普总统此前表示他对此次调查一无所知，该调查由美国国土安全部的国土安全调查局和司法部负责。周一被问及奥马尔的调查时，特朗普对记者表示：“我认为她是个糟糕的人，但这实际上应由司法部决定。”
马伦的此番言论发表之际，联邦当局正在调查奥马尔家族数十年前提交的移民文件可能存在的欺诈问题。本周早些时候哥伦比亚广播公司新闻报道称，相关文件可追溯至奥马尔的童年时期，由她已故的父亲在她年幼时填写。消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，奥马尔的多名亲属已收到此次调查的大陪审团传票，这名议员的个人手机已被国土安全部扣押。
采访中，科尔维特还向马伦询问了一个假设场景：一名曾在外国参战的军阀带着女儿以难民身份进入美国。马伦并未表明该情况适用于奥马尔的家庭，但这位国土安全部部长借此暗示，那些提交欺诈性移民文件并协助他人以同一虚假身份入境的人，完全可能依据美国法律被起诉。
他表示，此类行为可能违反《反敲诈勒索影响和腐败组织法》（RICO），这是一部用于起诉有组织犯罪集团的联邦法律。
“如果有人……非法填写文件，谎称自己是某人、拥有某类背景，随后在该个人的掩护下，大量其他人入境。我只是假设性地提及当前存在的大量此类案件，那么这可以被视为一起RICO案件，对吗？”这位国土安全部部长说道，“因为存在欺骗美国政府的共谋行为，因此随之而来的所有其他相关行为都可被视为同一案件的一部分进行调查。”
马伦暗示，敲诈勒索起诉可让调查人员追溯数十年前的行为，他辩称此类案件通常不受诉讼时效限制。
根据联邦法律，刑事RICO起诉通常适用五年诉讼时效，但在某些情况下，检察官可将旧行为纳入针对持续犯罪企业或共谋的及时起诉中。
在1957年“格鲁尼瓦尔德诉美国案”中，最高法院裁定检察官不能仅因为犯罪者在犯罪结束后掩盖了罪行就无限期延长共谋案件的追诉期。
马伦并未明确表示检察官正在对奥马尔寻求RICO指控，但他的言论表明，调查人员正在考虑是否将所谓的移民违规行为作为更广泛共谋的一部分进行调查，而非仅作为孤立的违法行为。他表示，国土安全调查局的特工已与司法部密切合作构建案件。
联邦官员公开谈论正在进行的刑事调查通常是不寻常的，除了确认法院授权的搜查已实施之外，这部分是出于正当程序保护和大陪审团保密规则。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系奥马尔的律师置评。
本周早些时候，作为特朗普的长期坚定批评者、多年来一直激怒总统的奥马尔，否认了所有不当行为，并表示她“不会被封口”。
“毫无疑问：这是一次针对政治对手、将联邦执法武器化的企图，”她在X平台上写道，“十年来，特朗普一直用毫无根据的谎言和抹黑运动针对我。这只是他政治恐吓运动的最新升级。”
萨拉·N·林奇为本报道贡献了内容。
DHS Secretary Mullin calls Ilhan Omar probe a “strong case,” says agents executed multiple search warrants
2026-10-16 6:16 PM EDT / CBS News
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said federal agents executed multiple search warrants on the same day they searched Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home. While appearing on a podcast Friday, Mullin described the ongoing investigation as a “strong case” while suggesting cases of coordinated immigration fraud could be prosecuted under federal racketeering laws.
In an interview with Andrew Kolvet, who hosts the “Charlie Kirk Show,” Mullin volunteered that multiple warrants had been served on Monday, adding that a judge had authorized the enforcement action and that investigators expected to present their case to a grand jury.
Omar has not been charged with a crime. She has called the investigation politically motivated.
“She wasn’t – or it wasn’t the only place we served the warrant,” Mullin said, referencing the D.C. residence of the Minnesota congresswoman. “There was multiple other warrants served on that same day.”
“We had a judge sign it, and we expect to be able to take the case to a grand jury,” Mullin said, revealing new details about the scope of the operation. “But I will tell you, we wouldn’t move forward, and President Trump didn’t want to move forward either, unless we knew that it couldn’t be politically driven. Now they want to try making it political driven. This individual wants to try making it about themselves. This was about enforcing once again our nation’s laws, and it’s a strong case.”
President Trump previously stated he didn’t know anything about the investigation, which is being handled by DHS’ Homeland Security Investigations division and the Justice Department. Asked about the Omar probe on Monday, Mr. Trump told reporters: “I think she’s a terrible person, but that’s really up to the DOJ.”
Mullin’s remarks came amid a federal investigation into possible fraud involving immigration documents submitted by Omar’s family decades ago. The documents in question date back to Omar’s childhood, involving paperwork completed by her late father when she was a child, CBS News reported earlier this week. Multiple relatives of Omar received grand jury subpoenas as part of the investigation, and the lawmaker’s personal cellphone was taken by DHS, sources told CBS News.
During the interview, Kolvet also asked Mullin about a hypothetical scenario involving a former foreign warlord who entered the United States as a refugee with his daughter. Mullin did not establish that the circumstances applied to Omar’s family. But the DHS secretary did use the hypothetical to suggest that those who submit fraudulent immigration documents and enable others to enter the country under the same purported scheme could very well be prosecuted under U.S. law.
Such conduct, he said, could potentially constitute a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, a federal law used to prosecute organized criminal enterprises.
“If someone … fills out their paperwork illegally, and they claim that they are this person and this is their background, and then underneath that individual, a lot of other people come in. And I’m just saying hypothetically across a whole bunch of cases that’s out there, then that can be considered a RICO case, right?” the DHS secretary offered. “Because there was conspiracy to deceive the American government, and therefore everything else that came in with it could then be looked at [part of] the same case.”
Mullin suggested that a racketeering prosecution could allow investigators to examine conduct extending back decades, arguing that statutes of limitations generally would not apply to such cases.
Under federal law, criminal RICO prosecutions are generally subject to a five-year statute of limitations, although in certain cases prosecutors can incorporate older acts into a timely prosecution involving an ongoing criminal enterprise or conspiracy.
In Grunewald v. United States, the Supreme Court held in 1957 that prosecutors cannot indefinitely extend a conspiracy simply because perpetrators covered it up after it ended.
Mullin did not explicitly indicate that prosecutors were pursuing RICO charges against Omar. But his remarks did suggest investigators are considering whether alleged immigration violations could be examined as part of a broader conspiracy rather than simply as isolated offenses. He said Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents had worked closely with the Justice Department to build out the case.
It is unusual for federal officials to speak openly about ongoing criminal investigations beyond confirming that a court-authorized search was conducted, in part due to due process protections and grand jury secrecy rules.
CBS News has reached out to Omar’s attorney for comment.
Earlier this week, Omar — a staunch Trump critic who has drawn the president’s ire for years — denied all wrongdoing and said she “will not be silenced.”
“Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” she wrote on X. “For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.”
Sarah N. Lynch contributed to this report.
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