Rep. Ilhan Omar slams federal search on home

Federal investigators have Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's phone and they've subpoenaed her relatives. This, as the Wall Street Journal is reporting, the government is now building a case to strip her citizenship and have her deported. Fox 9's Mike Manzoni is following the latest on this tonight. And Mike, the timing of the raid on her home earlier this week is considered unusual. Unusual, Randy, because the feds have historically avoided such actions against political candidates within 60 days of an election. We are now less than three weeks out. The feds only said that it was a court-authorized search. Omar is calling this whole thing an outrageous abuse of power and a weaponization of federal law enforcement. Federal agents carried boxes of evidence out of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's Washington home Monday just a day before President Trump chimed in saying this. I think she's a terrible person. I think she's a terrible congresswoman. I don't think she loves our country at all. Investigators are reportedly looking into potential fraud in Omar's immigration paperwork, and the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the goal is to denaturalize and eventually deport her. The journal reports that investigators are looking into whether Omar's father changed her age on her citizenship application, making her 17 at the time and automatically qualifying her to become naturalized with him. It would be very difficult, the burden is on the government. Immigration attorney Ana Patricia Costa says the government would have to prove in court that either Omar or her father lied on immigration forms before she became a citizen in 2000. They would have the burden of establishing that Representative Omar, who was a child when she acquired citizenship, or her father, who passed away in 2020, committed fraud at some point in the process. Revoking someone's citizenship is rare, but it does happen. Over a nearly five-decade span from 1968 to 2013, the government denaturalized fewer than 150 citizens. No reasonable person would have lied about this date of birth to have your child acquire citizenship when they very easily just could have gone through another process that isn't that big of a deal. Now, Omar has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing with her immigration paperwork, and she says this is an attempt to target political enemies. That's a quote. She insists that she will not be silenced, Randy.