白宫边境事务沙皇汤姆·霍曼上周为对伊尔汉·奥马尔众议员华盛顿特区住所的突袭进行辩护，称联邦政府对这位明尼苏达州民主党人拥有“有力的证据”。
White House border czar Tom Homan defended the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. home last week, arguing that the federal government has a “strong case” against the Minnesota Democrat.
霍曼周六在接受福克斯新闻采访时表示，他不想在国土安全部调查局——该机构负责美国移民和海关执法局的刑事调查工作并主导了此次突袭——之前下结论，但他“被告知他们掌握有力的证据”。他说：“我们会让证据指引方向，但她将受到与你我相同的标准约束。如果她违反了法律，那么她将承担责任。”联邦特工于10月12日突袭了奥马尔在华盛顿特区的住所，并扣押了包括该议员手机和护照在内的物品。
Homan told Fox News on Saturday he doesn’t want to get ahead of Homeland Security Investigations — the criminal investigative agency for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that led the raid — but he has “been told they have a strong case.”“We’ll let the evidence lead where it leads but she’ll be held to the same standard you and I are held,” Homan said. “If she violated the law, then she’ll be held accountable.”
此次突袭是对移民欺诈行为的调查的一部分，同时也涉及奥马尔已故父亲在1995年准备的公民身份文件问题。奥马尔本人及其任何家庭成员目前均未因此次调查被起诉，尽管她的几位亲戚已收到司法部发出的大陪审团传票。
Federal agents raided Omar’s D.C. home on Oct. 12 and seized items including the congresswoman’s cellphone and passport. The raid is part of a probe into immigration fraud and questions about citizenship paperwork Omar’s late father prepared in 1995.
奥马尔出生于索马里，于2000年成为美国公民。她称此次搜查行动是“对权力的肆意滥用”，是唐纳德·特朗普政府为“恐吓其政治对手”而实施的。
Neither Omar or any of her family members have been charged in connection with the investigation, though several of her relatives have received grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department. Omar, who was born in Somalia and became a U.S. citizen in 2000, called the raid “an outrageous abuse of power” that had been conducted by President Donald Trump’s administration in an attempt to “intimidate his political enemies.”
多位知名政界人士纷纷为这位来自明尼苏达州的民主党议员发声声援，其中包括前总统巴拉克·奥巴马。尽管奥巴马出生于夏威夷，但他也曾遭到以“出生地阴谋论”为代表的种种关于其公民身份的质疑，而这些言论很大程度上正是由特朗普散布的。奥巴马指出，总统之所以针对奥马尔，是因为“她一直是特朗普政府最激烈的批评者”。
Several prominent political figures have come to the Minnesota Democrat’s defense, including former President Barack Obama. He faced his own citizenship conspiracy theories known as the “birther” movement, which was perpetuated in large-part by Trump, despite being born in Hawaii. Obama said the president targeted Omar because “she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics.”
“任何总统或政府若公然试图以这种手段恐吓他人，都应引起所有美国人的愤慨，无论他们对奥马尔议员的政治观点持何种态度，”奥巴马周日在其社交平台X上写道，“因为如果这种做法成为常态，我们没有任何理由相信这种行为只会止于她一人；未来无论哪个党派的总统，都可能如法炮制。”
“The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views,” Obama wrote Sunday on X. “Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.”
霍曼的言论与本周早些时候国土安全部部长马克韦恩·穆林就该搜查行动发表的看法如出一辙。周五，穆林在《查理·柯克秀》节目中透露，联邦执法部门在对奥马尔住宅实施搜查的同一天，还执行了多份搜查令。“那并非我们执行搜查令的唯一地点，”穆林说道。
Homan’s comments echo remarks Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin made about the raid earlier this week. On Friday, Mullin told the “Charlie Kirk Show” that federal authorities had served multiple other search warrants on the same day as the raid on Omar’s home. “She wasn’t — or it wasn’t the only place we served the warrant,” Mullin said.
他补充称，国土安全部及特朗普政府原本并不希望实施此次行动，“除非我们确信此举不会带有政治动机”；不过如今奥马尔“试图将此事政治化”。穆林强调：“这次行动旨在再次维护我国法律尊严，而且证据确凿。”
He added that the department and Trump did not and would not want to move forward with the operation “unless we knew that it couldn’t be politically driven,” but said now Omar “wants to try making it about themselves.”“This was about enforcing once again our nation’s laws, and it’s a strong case,” Mullin said.
奥马尔已连续四届担任众议员，也是首位入选国会的索马里裔美国人。目前她正在竞选明尼苏达州第5国会选区的第五个任期。
Omar has served four terms in the House, and she is the first Somali American elected to Congress. She is running for her fifth term for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.