ACP45 wrote:
Interesting. Then why did "Ilhan Omar’s Minnesota legislative page has shown her date of birth to be Oct 4, 1981, since her election to the state legislature in 2016."?
"Interviews and the public record provide that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar claims to have obtained U.S. citizenship in the year 2000 as a 17-year-old, a minor.
In every instance, where we find Ilhan having been interviewed by reputable news outlets, her age is reported to have been 17 in 2000."
I'm simply asking a question based upon published information, some of which was put out by Omar herself.
Interesting. Then why did "Ilhan Omar’s Minne... (
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The lady has been through the mill and then some by the Minnesota GOP..
however, they could not keep her out of office and gee, she won rather well.
hard to read this lousy copy, but she got over 77% of the vote.. the only penalty which she was assessed for any of the slander was to repay 3,500 dollars for travel..
Minnesota's 5th congressional district, 2018[49]
Party Candidate Votes %
DFL Ilhan Omar 267,703 77.97
Republican Jennifer Zielinski 74,440 21.68
n/a Write-ins 1,215 0.35
Total votes 343,358 100.0
DFL hold
Committee assignments
116th Congress (2019–21)[50][51][52]
United States House Committee on Education and Labor
United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Party leadership and caucus memberships
Congressional Black Caucus
Congressional Progressive Caucus
Congressional committee assignments
for the record...
Early life and education
Omar was born in Mogadishu on October 4, 1982,[4][5] and spent her early years in Baidoa, Somalia.[6][7] She was the youngest of seven siblings, including Sahra Noor. Her father Nur Omar Mohamed, an ethnic Somali, worked as a teacher trainer,[8] and her mother, Fadhuma Abukar Haji Hussein, a Benadiri (a community of partial Yemeni descent), died when Ilhan was two.[9][10][11][12] She was raised by her father and grandfather thereafter.[13] Her grandfather Abukar was the director of Somalia's National Marine Transport and some of Omar's uncles and aunts also worked as civil servants and educators.[8] She and her family fled Somalia to escape the war and spent four years in a Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa County, Kenya, near the Somali border.[14][15][16]
After first arriving in New York in 1992,[17] Omar's family finally secured asylum in the U.S. in 1995 and lived for a time in Arlington, Virginia,[11] before moving to and settling in Minneapolis,[11] where her father worked first as a taxi driver and later for the post office.[11] Her father and grandfather emphasized the importance of democracy during her upbringing, and at age 14 she accompanied her grandfather to caucus meetings, serving as his interpreter.[13][18] Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old.[19][11] She has spoken about being bullied for wearing a hijab during her time in Virginia, recalling classmates sticking gum on it, pushing her down stairs, and jumping her when changing for gym class.[11] Omar remembers her father's reaction to these incidents: "They are doing something to you because they feel threatened in some way by your existence."[11]
Omar attended Edison High School and volunteered there as a student organizer.[20] She graduated from North Dakota State University[18] with bachelor's degrees in political science and international studies in 2011.[21] Omar was a Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs.[22]