The United States Department of Justice searches the home of progressive legislator Ilhan Omar

Federal agents searched the Washington home of progressive Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a harsh critic of President Donald Trump and detested by the president, early this Monday as part of an investigation into possible crimes, as confirmed by a Justice Department spokesperson. Apparently, the investigation is related to the documentation that the family of the legislator, born in Somalia, presented to obtain US nationality. Omar has denounced the case as an escalation in a “campaign of political intimidation” by the tenant of the White House.

In a message on social networks, the congresswoman has declared that she is “fine” and insists that the pre-dawn search of her home is part of orchestrated pressure against her. "Make no mistake: this is an attempt to go after political enemies and use federal law enforcement as a weapon. For ten years, Trump has attacked me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just a new escalation in his campaign of political intimidation," Omar maintains. “I'm not going to let them silence me,” he promised.

“The Homeland Security Investigations division carried out a judicially authorized search requested by the Department of Justice,” said a spokesperson for that institution. “This action is part of an ongoing federal investigation into possible crimes.” The Homeland Security Investigations division is part of the dreaded ICE, the immigration and customs police.

According to Fox News Digital, this investigation examines the immigration documentation presented by Omar's father when the current congresswoman was a child and the family entered the United States with refugee status. The future politician obtained nationality when she was a teenager.

The police action occurred just three weeks before the midterm elections on November 3, in which 435 seats in the House of Representatives and a third of the hundred seats in the Senate are at stake. Polls indicate that the Democratic opposition could win a majority in both chambers.

Ilhan Omar is part of a group of Democratic lawmakers whom US President Donald Trump personally detests and frequently attacks. The president also often criticizes the Somali community in the United States, whom he has long accused, in a series of anti-Muslim comments and without offering supporting evidence, of corruption and of representing a threat to American national security and the stability of the State of Minnesota, where a good part of this ethnic group, some 80,000 people, is concentrated.

“When they come from hell and complain and do nothing but criticize, we don't want them in our country,” Trump commented about the Somali community. “Let them go back to where they came from and fix it.” The president also repeats that Somalia “stinks” and that it is a “failed state.”

The president has always expressed his doubts that the congresswoman, who came to the country as a child with refugee status, entered legally. There are many insults that he has dedicated to her: he has come to call her “garbage” and repeats over and over again the hoax that she married his brother.

Omar, from the progressive wing of her party and one of Trump's biggest critics on Capitol Hill, has described the president's comments against her as an "insane and creepy obsession." The congresswoman has reported that both she and her family have received death threats, which Omar attributes to the “rhetoric of hate” in American politics, including that of the president himself.

Last month, a Minnesota resident was sentenced to one year and two months in prison after pleading guilty to an attack on a federal representative. Anthony James Kazmierczak admitted that he had poured vinegar on Omar because he disagreed with his political beliefs. At the time, Trump even questioned whether the attack had been authentic.

During Trump's second term, the Justice Department - headed by Todd Blanche, the president's former personal lawyer - has opened investigations and brought charges against several of the people the president considers his political enemies. He accused former FBI Director James Comey of perjury before Congress, who in Trump's first term opened an investigation into possible contacts between his campaign and Russian representatives. A court dismissed the case, but Justice again charged the exalted official months later, this time for spreading on networks the image of some shells that made up the numbers 47 86, in what prosecutors consider to be a code to incite violence against the president.

The Justice Department also opened investigations against New York Attorney General Letitia James, who prosecuted Trump, and against former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton, who after leaving office became a harsh critic of the president. The case against James was also dismissed by the judges; Bolton pleaded guilty and the court will hand down his sentence this month.