众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔（民主党-明尼苏达州）周三（10月21日）在其华盛顿特区住所遭搜查后首次公开发声，称关于她与兄弟结婚的指控“简直疯狂”。
当MS NOW主持人克里斯·海耶斯询问“她与兄弟结婚”这一说法是否有“任何奇怪的真实内核”时，奥马尔回答：“据我所知没有。”
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) spoke out for the first time after her Washington, DC, house was raided, saying on Wednesday, October 21, that allegations that she married her brother were “insane.”“Not to my knowledge,” Omar responded, when asked by MS NOW’s Chris Hayes if there was any “weird kernel of truth” to the claim that she married her brother.
奥马尔在采访中表示，关于她与前夫艾哈迈德·努尔·赛义德·埃尔米结婚是为了骗取绿卡的指控，源自一个“索马里博客”。她说，这些说法在“右翼阴谋论者”抓住不放后开始传播。
“有人在那里写道，你知道，他肯定是我的兄弟，或类似那样的效果，”她说。
The allegations that Omar and her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, tied the knot in a failed effort to get him a green card originated on a “Somali blog.”The claims spread after “right-wing conspiracy theorists” latched onto it, Omar said in the interview.“Somebody put in there that, you know, he had to have been my brother or something to that effect,” she said.
奥马尔声称，博主们“去找来一些随机的人，他们说……‘她把他介绍给我们，说他是她兄弟’，这简直是疯了。”
Omar claimed that bloggers “went and like found random people who are like .. ‘She introduced him to us and said he was her brother,’ which is, you know, insane.”
此前据称有文件显示，奥马尔暗示她和丈夫的净资产合计约3000万美元。她后来称这是个错误，并将数字下调。
Alleged documents previously indicated that Omar suggested she and her husband had a combined net-worth of some $30 million. She later claimed that it was a mistake and revised it down.
当被问及结合那些文件看她目前的财务状况时，她形容自己是“工薪阶层”，靠“发薪水过日子”。“我有一辆2016年的丰田凯美瑞。那是我们唯一的车。”
奥马尔说：“我在华盛顿特区和明尼阿波利斯都有租房，所以我的意思是，我不知道，这听起来可能不占国会的大多数，但我们当中确实有一些人并非出身富有，也没有财富。”
On being asked about her current financial situation in light of those documents, she described herself as “working class” and living “paycheck to paycheck.”“I have a Toyota Camry that’s from 2016. It’s our only car. I rent my DC place and my Minneapolis place, and so I mean, I don’t know, that sounds like not the majority of Congress, but there’s some of us that don’t come from wealth and don’t have wealth,” said Omar.
奥马尔还表示，她没有计划继续住在被国土安全调查局特工搜查过的华盛顿特区住宅里。
Omar also said that she has no plans to continue to live at the DC home which Homeland Security Investigations agents searched.
伊尔汉·奥马尔国籍风波：报道称特朗普官员在2019年的审查中未发现违规证据她表示：“我无法继续住在那里了，所以我们必须想想要搬到哪里去，”她补充说，她的住址已被公之于众，“鉴于我所面临的死亡威胁，继续住在那个房子里、让我的孩子们断断续续地来探望并被跟踪，已经不再可行了。”
Ilhan Omar citizenship row: Trump officials found no evidence of wrongdoing in 2019 review, report says“I can’t continue to live there, so we have to figure out where to move to,” she said, adding that her address was made 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.”
奥马尔还要求支持者向她的连任竞选活动捐款，以便她能够“在期中选举前夕，与试图恐吓我和其他许多人的特朗普及其政府作斗争”。伊尔汉·奥马尔对搜查行动的表态在谈到对华盛顿特区搜查行动的第一反应时，奥马尔表示，当联邦特工敲响她的房门时，她以为“什么东西着火了”。
她回忆道：“我以为是邻居们出了什么事。听起来像是一种紧急疏散的情况。”
Omar also asked her supporters to donate to her re-election campaign so she could “fight Trump and his administration for trying to intimidate me and so many other people right before the midterm elections.”What Ilhan Omar said about the raidTalking about her initial reaction to the DC raid, Omar said she thought “something was on fire” when federal agents banged on her door.“I thought something was happening to the neighbors. It sounded like an urgent evacuation sort of situation,” she recalled.
奥马尔表示，特工们“逐个房间搜查”，“带走了17件物品”，包括她的手机、她女儿的旧手机、她丈夫的笔记本、一本索马里语短语手册和一个相机。
Omar said that agents “went room by room” and “took 17 items,” including her cellphones, her daughter’s old cellphone, her husband’s notebooks, a Somali phrase book and a camera.
奥马尔驳斥了调查人员在搜查期间获取了她的DNA的说法。消息人士早些时候告诉《纽约邮报》，联邦检察官可能会利用DNA证据来试图证明奥马尔犯下了移民欺诈罪。
Omar dismissed claims that investigators obtained her DNA during the search. Sources earlier told the New York Post that federal prosecutors might use DNA evidence to try to prove that Omar committed immigration fraud.
知情人士透露，联邦调查人员利用举报人、政府档案以及现已获取的 DNA，试图证实关于奥马尔及其家庭成员（如其父）欺诈移民当局的指控。
“我会看看他们是否确实拿走了任何含有 DNA 的东西，”她说。
People familiar with the investigation said that the feds used whistleblowers, government records and now obtained DNA in an effort to substantiate allegations that Omar and her family members, like her father, defrauded immigration authorities.“I would have seen if they did take anything that had contained DNA,” she said.
她称赞 HSI（国土安全调查局）特工在完成搜查后将住所整理得井井有条。
She praised HSI agents for leaving the home tidy after completing their search.“They did a really good job in putting everything back in its place,” she said.
“他们把每样东西都放回了原位，做得非常好，”她说。“他们甚至把我一些没叠好的衣服叠好了。”
“They actually even folded some of my clothing that were not folded.”
奥巴马谴责对伊尔汗·奥马尔的调查，称特朗普政府正利用联邦权力恐吓她奥马尔接着将此次突击搜查描述为“侵入性强但态度礼貌”，并补充说他们“把房子留得很好”。
Obama condemns probe into Ilhan Omar, says Trump administration is using federal power to intimidate herOmar went on to describe the raid as “intrusive but polite,” adding they “left the house in good shape.”
汤姆·霍曼曾表示，联邦方面已构建起“一个有力的案件”，可能导致特朗普政府寻求撤销奥马尔的入籍资格。这位众议员自 1995 年其家庭从索马里移民美国以来一直居住在美国。
Tom Homan has said that the feds have built “a strong case” that could result in the Trump administration seeking to denaturalize Omar. The congresswoman has lived in the US since her family emigrated from Somalia in 1995.
消息人士此前透露，移民欺诈涉及奥马尔或其父努尔·奥马尔·穆罕默德，涉嫌谎报这位未来众议员的出生日期，以便在其父 2000 年入籍时让她获得美国公民身份。
Sources previously said that immigration fraud pertained to either Omar or her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, allegedly misrepresenting the future congresswoman’s birth date in order for her to become a US citizen when her dad naturalized in 2000.
辩护律师艾米·杰弗雷斯和约书亚·马茨写道，联邦方面拒绝遵守联邦治安法官针对在奥马尔住所执行搜查令提出的“特别要求”，甚至无视司法部政策，在临近选举时实施了搜查。
“特朗普总统从未掩饰他针对奥马尔众议员发起刑事调查并驱逐出境的意图，以此报复她的政治主张，”他们写道。
Defense attorneys Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz wrote that the feds refused to comply with a magistrate judge’s “special requests” for executing the search warrant at Omar’s home and even flouted DOJ policy by conducting it close to an election.“President Trump has made no secret of his desire to target Representative Omar for criminal investigation and deportation as retribution for her political advocacy,” they said.
对此，司法部发言人表示，该信函“充斥着虚假指控和不准确之处”。
In response, a DOJ spokesperson said that the letter was “riddled with false allegations and inaccuracies.”“Our attorneys and law enforcement partners complied with all court orders and legal obligations, as they always do,” the rep added.
“我们的律师和执法合作伙伴遵守了所有法院命令和法律义务，一如既往，”该发言人补充道。“刚发出信函就泄露给媒体，这不是善意之举，而是一场宣传秀。”
“Leaking a letter to the press right after sending it is not good faith. It is a publicity play.”