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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[–] 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 1 day 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 1 day 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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