Federal officers carry out search at Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s DC-area home

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Federal officers early on Monday executed a search warrant at the DC-area home of Rep. Ilhan Omar , the Minnesota congresswoman who has been the persistent target of ire from President Donald Trump’s administration, according to a Justice Department spokesperson and a source familiar with the matter.

The Department of Justice said in a statement on Monday that investigators from Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security that handles criminal investigations, “executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice.”

“This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation,” a DOJ spokesperson said.

The statement did not indicate what the investigation entailed. CNN has reached out to DHS and Omar for comment.

Omar is currently running for reelection and the search warrant was executed only weeks before the midterms.

While authorities have not said what prompted the search, administration officials have previously indicated that she was facing an investigation.

White House Border Czar Tom Homan said on Fox News last month that “things are going on” in relation to Omar, before adding: “But I can’t give the specifics of what’s happening.”

Speaking to Fox on Monday morning, Homan confirmed the search warrant was executed, but provided no other information.

“The specifics of the investigation, I think I need to turn that over to Todd Blanche or Markwayne Mullin,” he said. “I don’t want to get ahead of them commenting on an ongoing investigation.”

Omar was born in Somalia and grew up at the peak of that country’s civil war. She fled to the US as a teenager and later became a US citizen. She was first elected to Congress in 2018 and became part of the “Squad,” a group of female women of color congresswomen known for pushing for progressive causes.

Since joining Congress, she has been the target of racist vitriol, including from Trump, who called Omar “garbage” last year and said Somalis should “go back to where they came from.”

Her home district in Minnesota was the target of an expansive immigration-enforcement campaign earlier this year that led to violent clashes between protesters and immigration authorities and the fatal shootings of two US citizens who were protesting the administration’s immigration surge.

Top administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Mullin, have accused Omar of marrying her brother to help bring him into the United States. They have provided no proof of this claim.

Homan said on Fox News last month, referencing Omar, that if “someone committed immigration violation, someone committed marriage fraud, or anything like that, regardless if they’re a congressman or not, no one’s above the law.”

Asked specifically whether that means there was an open investigation into Omar, Homan responded: “I’m confirming that ICE is — yeah, like I said months ago, that is something that’s been reported and needs to be looked at.”

CNN’s Katelyn Polantz, Kristen Holmes and Annie Grayer contributed to this report.

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据司法部发言人和一位知情人士透露，周一清晨，联邦官员对明尼苏达州众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔位于华盛顿特区附近的住所执行了搜查令。奥马尔一直是唐纳德·特朗普总统政府持续攻击的目标。

美国司法部周一发表声明称，国土安全调查局（国土安全部下属负责刑事调查的机构）的调查人员“执行了司法部获得的司法授权搜查令”。

“此次执法行动是正在进行的联邦刑事调查的一部分，”司法部发言人表示。

声明并未说明调查的具体内容。CNN已联系国土安全部和奥马尔寻求置评。

奥马尔目前正在竞选连任，而搜查令是在中期选举前几周执行的。

虽然当局尚未说明搜查的原因，但政府官员此前曾表示她正面临调查。

白宫边境事务负责人汤姆·霍曼上个月在福克斯新闻上表示，奥马尔一事“正在发生一些事情”，然后他又补充说：“但我不能透露具体发生了什么事。”

周一上午，霍曼在接受福克斯新闻采访时证实搜查令已执行，但没有提供其他信息。

“关于调查的具体细节，我认为需要交给托德·布兰奇或马克韦恩·穆林来处理，”他说。“我不想抢在他们之前对正在进行的调查发表评论。”

奥马尔出生于索马里，在该国内战最激烈的时期长大。十几岁时，她逃往美国，后来成为美国公民。她于2018年首次当选国会议员，并成为“四人帮”（Squad）的一员。“四人帮”是由一群有色人种女议员组成的团体，她们以推动进步事业而闻名。

自从进入国会以来，她就一直是种族主义谩骂的目标，其中包括来自特朗普的谩骂。特朗普去年称奥马尔为“垃圾”，并说索马里人应该“回到他们来的地方”。

今年早些时候，她位于明尼苏达州的家乡选区成为大规模移民执法行动的目标，导致抗议者与移民当局之间发生暴力冲突，并造成两名抗议政府移民激增的美国公民被枪杀。

包括国土安全部长穆林在内的多位政府高官指责奥马尔与她的哥哥结婚是为了帮助他进入美国。他们并未提供任何证据来支持这一说法。

霍曼上个月在福克斯新闻上提到奥马尔时说，如果“有人违反移民法，有人犯了婚姻欺诈罪，或者任何类似的事情，无论他们是不是国会议员，没有人可以凌驾于法律之上。”

当被问及这是否意味着对奥马尔的调查正在进行时，霍曼回应道：“我确认，ICE正在——是的，就像我几个月前说的那样，这件事已经有人报道过，需要调查。”

CNN的凯特琳·波兰茨、克里斯汀·霍姆斯和安妮·格雷尔对本报道亦有贡献。