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Ilhan Omar, has become the first female refugee immigrant to be elected in U.S. political history. Omar, 37, won a House seat in a strongly Democratic district in Minneapolis, Minnesota, succeeding Keith Ellison who was himself the first Muslim ever elected to Congress.
What many people might not know is that Ilhan Omar is a former refugee who fled Somalia’s civil war and spent four years at Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya.
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