特朗普政府针对民主党众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔的一系列举动实在离谱至极。联邦调查人员无视选举前60天的“调查禁令”，这很离谱；由国土安全调查局的特工搜查这位明尼苏达州女众议员的住所，这也很离谱；而唐纳德·特朗普总统本人在公开要求展开如今正在进行的调查数月后，却装作与此事毫无关系，同样离谱至极。
Everything about the Trump administration’s pursuit of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is bizarre. It’s bizarre that federal investigators are ignoring the 60-day “blackout period” before the election; it’s bizarre that it was Homeland Security Investigations agents who searched the Minnesota congresswoman’s home; and it’s bizarre that President Donald Trump himself is pretending he had nothing to do with this months after publicly demanding the very investigation that’s now underway.
此外，即便针对奥马尔涉嫌违法的证据极为可疑，联邦特工仍没收了这位现任国会议员的笔记本电脑、手机以及护照，这一行为同样令人费解。不过，或许最为关键的是特朗普总统及其团队的最终目的。
For that matter, it’s also bizarre to see federal agents seize the laptop, cellphone and passport of a sitting member of Congress, despite highly dubious evidence of wrongdoing. But perhaps most important of all is the endgame the president and his team have in mind.
据《华尔街日报》报道，据美国官员及其他了解调查情况的人士透露，特朗普政府对明尼苏达州民主党众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔的调查，旨在搜集证据以剥夺其美国公民身份，最终将其驱逐出境。
The Wall Street Journal reported The Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe.
这项多管齐下的调查至少部分聚焦于奥马尔几十年前从索马里抵达美国后是如何获得公民身份的。了解调查情况的人士称，调查人员既关注这位女众议员本人，也调查她已故父亲的所作所为。1995年，努尔·奥马尔·穆罕默德带着女儿及其他家人从肯尼亚的一处难民营来到美国。
The multipronged effort is focused at least in part on how Omar obtained her citizenship after she arrived in the U.S. from Somalia decades ago. Investigators are focused both on the congresswoman and actions of her deceased father, some of the people familiar with the probe said. Nur Omar Mohamed brought his daughter and other family members to the U.S. from a refugee camp in Kenya in 1995.
六年前，特朗普出于刻意煽动种族对立的目的，在其社交平台上要求奥马尔及其他几位持进步立场的女众议员“滚回”她们“那个破败不堪、犯罪横行的老家去”。（在特朗普点名的几位女众议员中，只有奥马尔出生在美国以外的地方。）多年来，“滚回你的老家去”这种恶毒言论通常只会出现在酒吧里那些喝醉发怒的人口中。而在2019年，这种赤裸裸的种族主义言论竟被时任美国总统公开宣扬。
Six years ago, in an act of performative racism, Trump used his social platform to call on Omar and some of her progressive colleagues to “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” (Of the congresswomen the Republican targeted, only Omar was born outside the United States.) For many years, “go back to where you came from” was the kind of ugly cliché one might expect to hear from the angry drunk at the end of the bar. In 2019 the overt racism was embraced publicly by the sitting president of the United States.
在特朗普公然且毫不掩饰地表现出偏执态度六年后，他的立场如今发生了彻底的转变。就在这位共和党人开始要求奥马尔完全离开美国近一年之后，据称他的政府现在正采取实际行动，试图剥夺这位明尼苏达州议员的美籍，以便特朗普能真正强迫她“回到她所来自的国家”。纵观历史，总统与国会成员之间的冲突数不胜数，但现任行政首脑试图滥用联邦权力，企图驱逐一位在任民选议员的情况，在现代历史上尚无前例。
Six years after he flaunted his obvious and unapologetic bigotry, Trump’s position has taken a literal turn. Almost exactly a year after the Republican started demanding that Omar leave the U.S. altogether, his administration is reportedly now engaged in an actual effort to strip the Minnesotan of her American citizenship so that Trump can literally force her to “go back” to the country “from which she came.”Throughout history, there have been countless clashes between presidents and members of Congress, but there is no modern precedent for an incumbent chief executive trying to misuse the levers of federal power in the hopes of kicking a sitting elected lawmaker .
综合考量更广泛的情况，美国前检察官、MS NOW法律分析员乔伊斯·范斯通过BlueSky解释道：“这件事关乎伊尔汗·奥马尔，但也关乎控制、恐吓和威权主义。其传达的信息是：我们能对一位国会成员这样做，那么任何外国出生的美国人都无法安全。政府正在利用恐惧作为策略，以阻止人们表达反对意见。”
Taking stock of the broader circumstances, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, an MS NOW legal analyst, explained via BlueSky“This is about Ilhan Omar. But it’s also about control, intimidation and authoritarianism. The message is: we can do this to a member of Congress; no foreign-born American is safe. The administration is using fear as a tactic to discourage people from voicing opposition.”The post As Team Trump targets Ilhan Omar, a radical endgame comes into focus MS NOW