明尼苏达州联邦众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔周三在MS Now节目中否认了移民欺诈指控，这是联邦探员上周突击搜查她住所以来，她首次接受采访。
The Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar denied allegations of immigration fraud in a Wednesday appearance on MS Now, her first interview since federal agents raided her residence last week.
唐纳德·特朗普身边的人——内阁官员和右翼网红无一例外——都在推广关于这位民主党众议员毫无根据的理论，指控奥马尔与其兄长存在虚假婚姻，并在移民文件中伪造细节。
Those in Donald Trump's orbit – cabinet officials and rightwing influencers alike – have promoted baseless theories about the Democratic congresswoman, accusing Omar of being in a sham marriage with her brother and fudging details of her immigration paperwork.
奥马尔告诉MS Now主持人克里斯·海耶斯，关于兄长的传闻最初在一个索马里博客上流传，随后在明尼阿波利斯的右翼阴谋论者中获得关注。她认为此次突击搜查旨在安抚特朗普的忠实支持者。
The brother rumors circulated on a Somali blog, Omar told MS Now host Chris Hayes, before it gained traction with rightwing conspiracy theorists in Minneapolis. She believes the raid was designed to appease Trump loyalists.
“他们不断暗示将会对我采取行动，”奥马尔对海耶斯说。“我认为他们必须做点什么，好对外宣称：‘嘿，看，我们突击搜查了她的房子。’” 10月12日的突击搜查标志着奥马尔与特朗普多年恩怨的升级。
"They kept alluding to the fact that something was going to happen to me," Omar told Hayes. "They had to do something, I believe, to say, 'Hey, look we raided her house." The 12 October raid marked an escalation of a years-long feud between Omar and Trump.
特朗普曾多次贬低奥马尔的人品、信仰和索马里裔背景，最近一次是周二，他在白宫回答记者提问时称她为“病态、极其不诚实、仇恨我们国家的人”。
The president has repeatedly denigrated Omar's character, faith and Somali heritage, most recently on Tuesday, when he called her a "sick, very dishonest person who hates our country" while answering reporters' questions at the White House.
当被问及奥马尔是否可能因涉嫌在移民文件中虚假陈述而面临驱逐出境时，特朗普回答：“嗯，有可能。她也可能入狱。” 在MS Now的采访中，奥马尔还透露了突击搜查过程的更多细节。
Trump had been asked if Omar could face deportation over alleged misstatements in her immigration paperwork, to which he replied: "Well, she could be. She could also go to jail." In the MS Now interview, Omar also shared further details about how the raid was conducted.
她说，约10至15名国土安全部调查局探员于清晨6点猛敲她的门，随后执行搜查令。据奥马尔称，探员们逐间搜查了她的住所，历时近五小时，带走了17件物品，包括数部手机。“除非你想吓唬人，否则不会大清早跑到别人家里，”奥马尔说。
About 10 to 15 Homeland Security Investigations agents pounded on her door at 6am, then executed a search warrant, she said. According to Omar, after scouring her residence room by room for nearly five hours, the agents took 17 items, including several phones. "You don't show up to somebody's house that early in the morning unless you're trying to freak them out," Omar said.
“显然，他们希望把我关起来、驱逐出境，或者让我遭遇其他不好的事情。但我认为，对他们来说最大的满足感就是看到我说：‘我受够你们了，我要离开了。’”她说，“我拥有成为国会议员的合法权利。”
"Obviously, they'd like to see me locked up, deported and all of those things. But I think the bigger satisfaction for them would be for me to be like, 'I'm tired of all of you and I'm going to leave,'" she said. "I have a legal right to be a member of Congress."