Rep. Ilhan Omar says she will move out of her Washington, DC, home after the federal search

The US Rep. Ilhan Omar will move out of her Washington, D.C. home, which federal agents searched last week, she said Wednesday, noting that the attention from the raid made her insecure.

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Federal authorities are investigating potential fraud in her family’s immigration papers and have issued several of her family members as grand jury callers, 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 have done nothing wrong.”

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

In an interview with MS NOW, Omar said she was torn by the search weeks from the Nov. 3 midterms, which will decide control of the House and Senate. She is running for re-election in a deep blue district in the middle of Minneapolis and is expected to retain her seat.

Omar recalled waking up around 6 a.m. to find Homeland Security investigators knocking on her door with a warrant. They searched for four or five hours and seized 17 items, including phones, notebooks, a Somali-language children’s book and a vintage camera her husband received as a gift, she said.

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

Omar came to the United States with her family at the age of 12 after they were granted asylum. She became a US citizen five years later, in 2000.

“It would be a huge undertaking to, I suppose, charge a 12-year-old with such a clever conspiracy to defraud immigration services to get into the United States. I’m sure there are a lot of intelligent 12-year-olds, but that seems like a leap,” she said in the interview.

The search drew sharp condemnation from congressional Democrats, who also questioned the timing. The Ministry of Justice has historically avoided obvious investigative actions involving candidates in the immediate run-up to an election.

Omar said the agents were “intrusive but polite,” logging the items they took and putting everything else back in its place.

Associated Press reporter Alanna Durkin Richer contributed from Washington.