Rep. Ilhan Omar says she will leave her Washington, D.C., home after federal search

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar will leave her Washington, D.C., home where federal agents searched last week, she said Wednesday, noting that attention from the raid has led her to feel unsafe there.

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Federal authorities are investigating potential fraud in his family’s immigration documents and have subpoenaed some of his relatives before a grand jury, 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, born in Somalia and a naturalized U.S. citizen, said Wednesday in her first interview since the search that she was “confident that I didn’t do anything wrong.”

The progressive Minnesota Democrat has been a frequent critic and target of President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly pushed to prosecute his perceived political enemies.

In the interview with MS NOW, Omar said she was shaken by the weeks of research leading up to the Nov. 3 midterm elections, which will decide control of the House and Senate. She is running for office in a deep blue district centered in Minneapolis and is expected to retain her seat.

Omar remembers waking up around 6 a.m. when Homeland Security investigators knocked on her door with a warrant. They searched for four or five hours and seized 17 items, including phones, notebooks, a children’s book in the Somali language and a vintage camera that her husband had received as a gift, she said.

The Justice Department shared few details about the case other than that it was a criminal investigation.

Omar came to the United States with her family at the age of 12, after being granted asylum. She became an American citizen five years later, in 2000.

“It would be a huge undertaking, I suppose, to indict a 12-year-old for so cleverly conspiring to defraud immigration officials to come to the United States. I’m sure there are a lot of smart 12-year-olds, but it seems like a big step,” she said in the interview.

The search drew strong condemnation from congressional Democrats, who also questioned the timing. The Justice Department has historically avoided conducting overt investigations involving candidates in the period immediately preceding an election.

Omar said the officers were “intrusive but polite,” recording the items they had taken and putting everything else back in its place.

Associated Press reporter Alanna Durkin Richer contributed from Washington.