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Available reporting consistently states Ilhan Omar arrived in the United States from a Kenyan refugee camp in 1995 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen around 2000 at about age 17 or 18, but precise ...
Public reporting and biographical sources say Barack Obama has publicly identified and practiced as a Christian: he was baptized at Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988 and is described as a Protes...
Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu in 1982 as the youngest of seven children; her mother died when Omar was about two and she was raised by her father and grandfather before the family fled the outbreak...
Ilhan Omar arrived in the United States from a Kenyan refugee camp in March 1995 as a 12-year-old after fleeing Somalia’s civil war; her family was part of broader refugee resettlement in the mid‑1990...
Ilhan Omar is a U.S. citizen who was born in Somalia and immigrated to the United States as a refugee; multiple profiles and her campaign materials describe her as a naturalized citizen . Claims and c...
Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia, spent about four years in a Kenyan refugee camp, and arrived in the United States as a refugee in March 1995 at roughly age 12; multiple biographical profiles and Omar’...
Ilhan Omar is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and arrived in the United States after years as a refugee; multiple reputable profiles say she became a U.S. citizen in 200...
Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, fled the Somali civil war with her family in 1991, spent about four years in a Kenyan refugee camp, and was resettled to the United States in 1995 as a refug...
Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu in 1982, lost her mother at age two, and left Somalia with her family at about age eight when civil war broke out; they spent roughly four years in a Kenyan refugee ca...
Ilhan Omar’s family left Somalia in the early 1990s as the Siad Barre regime collapsed and clan-based fighting and lawlessness spread; Omar has said armed gunmen attacked her family’s compound and the...
Ilhan Omar and her family fled Somalia, spent years in a Kenyan refugee camp, and were granted asylum in the United States in the 1990s; Omar became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000 at age 17 . Clai...
Ilhan Omar’s path to U.S. citizenship is stated in the provided materials as a naturalization completed in , after her family fled the Somali civil war and spent years in a Kenyan refugee camp before ...
Multiple news outlets report that video and reporting show Rep. Ilhan Omar made comments in January 2024 in Somali asserting she would oppose foreign interference in Somalia — including a line transla...
Available reporting does not provide a single, definitive annual dollar figure for how much Minnesota government pays to Somalian immigrants; estimates and assertions vary widely across outlets and ad...
There is no reporting in the provided sources that documents “massive human bones found beneath African salt flats”; the major, well‑publicized troves of hominin remains in southern and eastern Africa...
Ilhan Abdullahi Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 4, 1982, according to multiple official and reputable profiles including the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and th...
Available reporting shows Ilhan Omar arrived in the United States as a Somali refugee and that media outlets and her office state she became a U.S. citizen around 2000, with some reporting asserting h...
Travelers’ ability to “opt out” of biometric passport scans varies sharply by country and by the law or policy at the point of collection: in the United States most reporting and DHS materials say U.S...
Ilhan Omar’s family fled Mogadishu because of the collapse of order and rising violence in Somalia’s civil war after President Siad Barre’s government fell in 1991; Omar has said the war “started when...
Ilhan Omar arrived in the United States as a refugee in the 1990s, spent years in a Kenyan camp, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000 at about age 17, according to multiple contemporary profi...