New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she has not received a response from the Department of Justice to inform her if she is being investigated.

Independent reporter Nicholas Ballasy confronted her in the Capitol and asked if she was concerned.

“Hey, congresswoman, can you tell us, are you under investigation by DoJ? Have they told you yet? Have they responded?” the reporter said.

“I mean, they haven’t been respond — I asked them, they haven’t responded to me, but, you know, once again, I’m fully using the First Amendment to inform people of their constitutional rights. They say a lot of things, but I’ve written a formal letter and they won’t respond,” the representative said.

“What would result from a possible arrest of a lawmaker, a sitting Democrat lawmaker, over immigration by the Trump Administration?” Ballasy continued.

“I mean, whether it’s about immigration or anything else, the arrest of, I think, a lawmaker without any actual grounds, I think it represents a tremendous sea change in escalation in what this administration is willing to do to bend laws, norms, etc… Not how normal functioning democracy works,” the lawmaker said, ignoring that just more than a year ago a former president and leading candidate for the presidency was arrested.

“And on top of what it means for us domestically, I think globally many of our allies, partners across the world will be extremely alarmed by such authoritarian development in the United States. So I sure hope that for all the saber-rattling that this administration is doing, that they really think about the global consequences of what it means for the United States,” she said.

But Border Czar Tom Homan, Department of Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem and others have hinted at her possible arrest.

The congresswoman organized a “Know Your Rights” webinar earlier this year, in which lawyers advised illegal immigrants on how to respond to interactions with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities.

The internet forum, held in both English and Spanish, provided legal advice and distributed papers, including one declaring that immigrants “do not have to open the door” for ICE officials unless they had a judge-signed warrant.

Ocasio-Cortez’s office also supplied information on how to receive pro bono legal assistance and urged undocumented people to sign privacy release forms, which would allow her office to interfere in deportation proceedings.

Ocasio-Cortez has forcefully denied any allegations that her actions were inappropriate, labeling the prospect of a federal inquiry “politically motivated.”