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• Ilhan Omar:

  One night, militia tried to break into our home, and the exterior was riddled with bullets.

• Ilhan Omar:

  I find hope in knowing that I belong to a state that has a lot of people who are champions of chang

• Ilhan Omar:

  We say this is a land of immigrants, and we forget that this was a land that belonged to people. An

• Ilhan Omar:

  This country gave us hope. This country allowed for us to develop our own identity and to create ou

• Ilhan Omar:

  Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive.

• Ilhan Omar:

  Since 2011, I am happy to say that I have reconciled with Ahmed Hirsi; we have married in our faith

• Ilhan Omar:

  The house I was born in in Somalia was right next to a big market. A lot of beggars or panhandlers

• Ilhan Omar:

  I was always made aware of inequality in society, that there was a class system. In Somalia, we hav

• Ilhan Omar:

  I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely e

• Ilhan Omar:

  We need to be constantly reminded that this is a representative democracy, and we need to be in tun