U.S. Homeland Security agents raid Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home

Let's turn our focus south of the border now. That's where we're watching a developing story in Washington. Homeland Security agents have raided the home of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Sources tell the Associated Press this is related to an ongoing criminal investigation into Omar's immigration history. Omar is a frequent target of political and personal attacks by President Donald Trump, and today's raid is being condemned by many as an abuse of power by his administration. Journalist Nick Harper is watching this for us. He joins us from the U.S. Capitol. Nick, walk us through the situation around this morning's raid. Yeah, Mark, we got word of that early morning raid taking place here in Washington, D.C., at Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home. But of course, we have now seen this political backlash because this raid came just over three weeks before the midterm election, an election where the Congresswoman is up for re-election. This raid taking place under the order of the Department of Justice, but on the scene we had Homeland Security officials, part of their Special Investigative ICE unit, specifically looking into potential immigration fraud. We have known for some time, according to the Trump administration, that the Congresswoman has been part of an ongoing investigation. Some claims, although not formally confirmed by the administration, that they've been looking into fraud and potential immigration fraud to see whether or not she lied over her application to live here legally in the United States, remember the Congresswoman was born in Somalia, she however in the last few minutes has put out a statement a furious attack and push back on the Trump administration, in that she says make no mistake this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement, she goes on to talk about how that this is the latest escalation in an intimidation campaign coming just over three weeks before her re-election and she says that she will not be silenced also saying that for 10 years she has faced these baseless lies and smear campaigns from Donald Trump himself, he in the past has called her garbage, a scammer, but has also repeatedly put out a conspiracy theory that she married her brother to become an American citizen, those claims also have been defended and pushed back against, we've seen the Democratic House leaders coming out with a statement calling this a violent mass deportation machine and the fact that it's now being brought to the home of a duly elected official. All right, journalist Nick Harper reporting in D.C. Thank you, Nick.