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Ilhan Omar facing attacks invoking her Somali origin
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’s marriage to political consultant Tim Mynett has remained a continuous point of public scrutiny since it became public in 2019 and the couple married in 2020, shaping both the framings of ...
Ilhan Omar remains a member of the U.S. House of Representatives because she is the duly elected representative for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District and is recorded as serving in Congress from 2...
Ilhan Omar’s family fled Mogadishu in the early 1990s as Somalia collapsed into factional fighting and state institutions broke down during the Somali Civil War, a collapse that included armed attacks...