U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar will move out of her Washington, D.C., home that federal agents searched last week, she said Wednesday, noting that attention brought on by the raid has made her feel unsafe there.

Federal authorities are investigating potential fraud in her family’s immigration paperwork and have issued grand jury subpoenas to some of her relatives, a person briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation.

Omar, who was born in Somalia and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, said Wednesday in her first interview since the search that she is “confident in the fact that I didn’t do anything wrong.”

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[–] 52 points 2 days ago (9 children)

What even would a search be good for? Lets just play with the scenario here, and assume they have good intentions. They don't, but now we're in make-believe-land for a second. The dipsshits think she did something wrong years ago filing paperwork wrong or whatever the excuse is. Who would keep the proof of their wrongdoings for years afterwards? "I better save these documents forever, that could undeniably get me deported due to my wrongdoings".

Even under the most generous of circumstances, raiding her home makes no sense.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 days ago* (5 children)

    I think it's worse than that. She immigrated to the USA at 12 and naturalized at 17. She doesn't have any reason to be searched under the pre-tenses they've given. She was a minor when she immigrated and a minor when she was naturalized.

    They want to: 1) Intimidate her and 2) Find some unrelated "gotcha" to remove her from Congress.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    They are currently looking into such a gotcha. One of the avenues is that they want to find some sort of criminal conspiracy in her father's status, revoke it posthumasly, then strip her citizenship over a technicality.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Then she’s not eligible for congress again until she’s been a citizen for 7 years. Assuming they don’t immediately send her to some unrelated country the minute it’s been stripped.

    I hope the Dems win, and have the balls to actually stop this shit. Or we’re all even more fucked than now.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    The conspiracy theory is that she was 18 when her father was naturalized and he lied about her age. He claimed she was 17 so she would also get citizenship. If they can prove she was 18 she would lose her citizenship. My guess is they were looking for some birth certificate or other documents that would show her "true" age.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    It makes no sense because they don't have good intentions. If you assume they have bad intentions, then the search is obviously part of their method of intimidation and harassment of a political opponent and makes perfect sense from their twisted and disgusting perspective.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago

    Lets just play with the scenario here, and assume they have good intentions. They don’t, but now we’re in make-believe-land for a second.

    It makes no sense because they don’t have good intentions.

    Why is it so hard for people to go along with a hypothetical?

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