Federal agents searched Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's Washington home before dawn, an escalation that looks political and lands weeks before the midterms.

• Homeland Security Investigations executed a search warrant tied to claimed immigration paperwork fraud by Omar's father, who is dead, when she was a child.
• Omar came to the US as a Somali refugee in 1995 and became a citizen at 17, making any case against her thin.
• The timing breaks the Justice Department's own custom of avoiding visible election-sensitive moves in the 60 days before a vote.
• Trump has been attacking Somali immigrants in Minnesota at rallies and online, urging residents to "fight back," while JD Vance has publicly floated an indictment.
• Omar says she will not be silenced and calls it political intimidation after a decade of smears.

Outlook: Expect more immigration-themed attacks on Omar and Somali communities through the midterms, and a widening cycle of both parties turning federal law enforcement on their opponents.