DHS confirms probe of former 'undocumented' Boston lawmaker sentenced in corruption case

Libs of TikTok, a social media account known for criticizing liberal hypocrisy and run by activist Chaya Raichik, highlighted Anderson last week, and said that a source had told her DHS was investigating Anderson.

"We are looking into this, yes," Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital when asked about the claim on Monday.

"We always say the 'ummah' which means 'community'. It doesn't necessarily exclude non-Muslims."

"As the person that I am - Muslim, Cape Verdean, someone who's been undocumented, an African immigrant and now African American - I think that all of that is what makes me a very dynamic Black woman," Anderson said at the time.

Cape Verde, an archipelago a few hundred miles offshore of Senegal, is home to about 600,000 people and best known in the U.S. as the area from which many North Atlantic hurricanes develop. 

During her post-election speech in Boston's Nubian Square, Anderson said she hoped to work to break down "segregation" between the heavily minority Roxbury neighborhood and the South End of Boston.

"If we can begin to be actually sincere about the work and putting the community first. That's when I will start feeling really good," said Anderson, who was the first African immigrant elected to the council, according to WGBH.

In regard to her court case, the Herald reported Anderson gave a staff member $13,000 under the condition that $7,000 would return to her, adding the swap happened in the aforementioned restroom.

Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, told Anderson the kickback may have been considered "low-hanging fruit," but was a "breach of trust," nonetheless, according to the paper.

She alleged the press does not always "report accurately on Black people," and that the media also "tr[ies] to create stories" and should "verify your facts."

Special Agent-in-Charge Ted Docks of the FBI's Boston division said Anderson "let the power she wielded go to her head and routinely put herself over her constituents who trusted her to act on their behalf and for their benefit."

"Today's sentence holds her accountable for flagrantly embracing a culture of fraud and deceit and brazenly pocketing taxpayer money inside a City Hall bathroom to feather her nest."

Wu, a Democrat, accused the Trump administration of being a party that "doesn't follow the law."

Bondi had issued letters to several sanctuary jurisdictions warning them that their ordinances in regard to cooperation with immigration enforcement run counter to federal law.

Fox News Digital reached out to the public defender listed for Anderson, Scott Bauer, but did not immediately hear back.