（NewsNation）——明尼苏达州民主党籍众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔表示，她对联邦探员在上周对其位于华盛顿特区住所的联邦突击搜查中带走17件物品感到“惊讶”。奥马尔告诉MS Now，被扣押的物品包括她的手机、一部旧手机、她最小女儿的手机、丈夫的笔记本、丈夫从舅舅那里收到的一部相机，以及一本儿童索马里语短语书。
(NewsNation) — Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar said she was "surprised" federal agents took 17 items during last week's federal raid search of her Washington, D.C. home. Omar told MS Now that her phone, an old phone, her youngest daughter's phone, her husband's notebooks, a camera he received from his uncle and a Somali phrase book for children were seized.
“带走17件物品，其中大约10件只是笔记本和旧手机之类的东西，真是件怪事，非常怪的事，”她说。奥马尔的律师周五要求司法部立即归还探员扣押的财产，辩称源于移民欺诈调查的搜查“既无正当理由，也不合法”。奥马尔还告诉MS Now，突击搜查后她在家中感到不安全。“显然，我无法继续住在那里，”她周三在搜查后的首次采访中说。
“To walk away with 17 items of, like, 10 that were just notebooks and like old phones was such a bizarre, bizarre thing,” she said. Attorneys for Omar asked the Justice Department on Friday to immediately return property that agents seized, arguing the search stemming from an immigration fraud investigation was “neither justified nor lawful.”Omar also told MS Now that she feels unsafe in her home after the raid. “Obviously, I can’t continue to live there,” she said Wednesday in her first interview since the search.
“我得想办法搬到哪里去，因为我们的地址是公开的，加上我面临的死亡威胁，在那栋房子里住、让孩子们不时来探望、还让别人跟踪他们，已不再可行。”据报道，联邦当局正在调查她家族移民文件中潜在的欺诈行为。上周，联邦检察官作为调查的一部分发出了至少15份传票，包括针对她一些亲属的传票。NewsNation周二证实，奥马尔的姐姐萨赫拉·努尔在针对这位女众议员的持续刑事调查中接受了当局询问。
“I have to figure out where to move to, because our address has been public, and with the death threats that I deal with, it’s no longer going to be feasible to be in that house and have my kids visiting off and on and having people track them.”Federal authorities are reportedly investigating potential fraud in her family’s immigration paperwork. Last week, federal prosecutors issued at least 15 subpoenas as part of the investigation, including subpoenas targeting some of her relatives. Omar‘s older sister, Sahra Noor, was questioned by authorities amid the ongoing criminal probe into the congresswoman, NewsNation confirmed Tuesday.
奥马尔出生于索马里，是归化美国公民。她周三在采访中说，她“确信我没有做任何错事”。奥马尔未被指控犯罪。她一直坚称自己没有做错任何事。据报道，调查人员正在审查奥马尔的移民历史，以及她和已故父亲是否在移民文件上故意提供了关于她出生日期的虚假信息。
Omar was born in Somalia and is a naturalized U.S. citizen. She said Wednesday in her interview that she is “confident in the fact that I didn’t do anything wrong.”Omar has not been charged with a crime. She has maintained she has done nothing wrong. Reports have suggested investigators are examining Omar’s immigration history and whether she and her late father intentionally provided false information about her birth date on immigration paperwork.
NewsNation记者莱兰·维特特报道称，联邦探员在突袭明尼苏达州民主党众议员奥马尔位于华盛顿特区的住所前，曾收集垃圾，希望从中获取奥马尔及其家人的DNA。多名知情人士向NewsNation透露，潜在的DNA证据对针对奥马尔的调查至关重要。他们表示，此案的范围比公众仅凭围绕其移民历史和婚姻状况的长期指控所推测的要广泛。
NewsNation’s Leland Vittert reported federal agents collected garbage in hopes of obtaining DNA from Omar and her family before the raid at the Minnesota Democrat’s home in Washington, D.C. Multiple sources familiar with the probe tell NewsNation that potential DNA evidence is critical to the investigation into Omar. They say the case is broader than the public may assume based on longstanding accusations surrounding her immigration history and marital status.