By Guy Birchall

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) says she will have to move out of her Washington apartment due to threats received after federal agents searched the residence earlier this month.

“I mean, obviously I can’t continue to live there,” the Somali-born congresswoman told MS NOW in an interview aired on Oct. 21.

“So we 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, like, visiting off and on, having people track them.”

Discussing the search itself, Omar said she awoke at 6 a.m. on Oct. 12 to discover that federal agents had “basically, like, surrounded the house” and that she initially believed someone was banging on her apartment door to alert her to a fire and evacuate the premises.

“You don’t show up to somebody’s house that early in the morning unless you’re trying to freak them out. And it obviously did freak all of us out,” she said.

At the time the search warrant was executed, Omar had arrived home in the early hours after traveling and was in the apartment with her husband and 20-year-old son.

She said Homeland Security Investigations agents seized 17 items from her home, including phones and notebooks.

Omar said she “didn’t do anything wrong” and reiterated her view that the current investigation into her is “politically motivated.”

The Epoch Times contacted the Department of Homeland Security for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.

Omar’s remarks come just days after Border czar Tom Homan said she could be denaturalized if investigators find that she lied when applying for U.S. citizenship.

Homan said in an Oct. 17 interview with Fox News that investigators have “a strong case” in their ongoing investigation into Omar but declined to provide specific details.

“If she violated a law, then she’ll be held accountable. I don’t have the specifics of the evidence they have, line by line, but we’ll see where it leads,” he told the news outlet.

“I think they’re going to turn over every rock they got.”

When asked whether Omar could be stripped of her U.S. citizenship and deported, Homan said it is possible if the immigration fraud allegations against her are proven to be true.

“Of course, if you lie during the naturalization process, there is a process to denaturalize somebody. We’ve done it before. It’s a long, tedious process, but it’s been done before,” he said.

President Donald Trump, asked about the investigation into Omar in the Oval Office on Oct. 21, said that if it was discovered she had committed immigration fraud, she could be deported or go to prison.

“They keep talking about deportation; no, she could go to jail,” the president told reporters, going on to say that, in his opinion, Omar is a “very dishonest person … who hates our country.”

Trump added that the congresswoman comes from a “country that is, essentially, not even a country: Somalia,” describing the African nation as having no government and no police protection.

“All they have is people running around shooting each other, and she comes over here, and she wants to tell us how to run America,” he said.

Omar moved to the United States with her family in the 1990s amid a civil war in Somalia. She became a state representative in Minnesota in 2017, and a U.S. representative in 2019.

The 44-year-old is seeking a fifth term in the House of Representatives in the midterm elections on Nov. 3. Her district covers Minneapolis and some surrounding areas.

Aldgra Fredly contributed to this report.