Ilhan Abdullahi Omar was born on October 4,1982 and is an American politician serving as the US representative for since 2019.
29 Facts About Ilhan Omar
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Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 4,1982, and spent her early years in Baidoa, Somalia.
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Ilhan Omar's family secured asylum in the US and arrived in New York in 1995, then lived for a time in Arlington, Virginia, before moving to and settling in Minneapolis, where her father worked first as a taxi driver and later for the post office.
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Ilhan Omar attended Thomas Edison High School, from which she graduated in 2001, and volunteered as a student organizer.
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Ilhan Omar graduated from North Dakota State University in 2011 with a bachelor's degree, majoring in political science and international studies.
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In 2013, Ilhan Omar managed Andrew Johnson's campaign for Minneapolis City Council.
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In June 2019, Minnesota campaign finance officials ruled that Ilhan Omar had to pay back $3,500 that she had spent on out-of-state travel and tax filing in violation of state law, plus a $500 fine.
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The Campaign Finance Board's investigation found that in 2014 and 2015 Ilhan Omar had jointly filed taxes with a man she was not legally married to.
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On June 5,2018, Ilhan Omar filed to run for the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota's 5th congressional district after six-term incumbent Keith Ellison announced he would not seek reelection.
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Brian Stelter of CNN Business found that from January to July 2019 Ilhan Omar had around twice as many mentions on Fox News as on CNN and MSNBC, and about six times the coverage of James Clyburn, a Democratic leader in the House of Representatives.
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In July 2019, Ilhan Omar introduced a resolution co-sponsored by Rashida Tlaib and Georgia Representative John Lewis stating that "all Americans have the right to participate in boycotts in pursuit of civil and human rights at home and abroad, as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution".
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On January 7,2021, Ilhan Omar led a group of 13 House members introducing articles of impeachment against Trump on charges of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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On November 5,2021, Ilhan Omar was one of six House Democrats to break with their party and vote against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act because it was decoupled from the social safety net provisions in the Build Back Better Act.
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In 2018, Ilhan Omar came under criticism for statements she made about Israel before she was in the Minnesota legislature.
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In September 2019, Ilhan Omar condemned Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to annex the eastern portion of the occupied West Bank known as the Jordan Valley.
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Ilhan Omar said Israelis should not vote for Netanyahu in the September 2019 Israeli legislative election.
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In March 2019, Ilhan Omar addressed a rally in support of a Minnesota bill that would ban gay conversion therapy in the state.
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In January 2019, amid the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, Ilhan Omar joined Democrats Ro Khanna and Tulsi Gabbard in denouncing the Trump administration's decision to recognize Juan Guaido, the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, as Venezuela's interim president.
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On February 4,2014, Ilhan Omar was attacked and wounded by multiple attendees during a DFL caucus for Minnesota's House of Representatives District 60B.
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In December 2019, George Buck, another Republican running for Congress, suggested that Ilhan Omar be hanged for treason.
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Ilhan Omar received the 2015 Community Leadership Award from Mshale, an African immigrant media outlet based in Minneapolis.
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Ilhan Omar's family was named one of the "five families who are changing the world as we know it" by Vogue in their February 2018 issue featuring photographs by Annie Leibovitz.
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On October 19,2020, Ilhan Omar joined Ocasio-Cortez, Disguised Toast, Jacksepticeye, and Pokimane in a Twitch stream playing the popular game Among Us, encouraging streamers to vote in the 2020 election.
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In 2002, Ilhan Omar became engaged to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi.
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Ilhan Omar has said that she and Hirsi divorced within their faith tradition in 2008.
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In 2009, Ilhan Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British Somali.
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In 2017, Elmi and Ilhan Omar legally divorced, and Ilhan Omar and Hirsi legally married in 2018.
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On October 7,2019, Ilhan Omar filed for divorce from Hirsi, citing an "irretrievable breakdown" of the marriage.
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In March 2020, Ilhan Omar married Tim Mynett, a political consultant whose political consulting firm, the E Street Group, received $2.78 million in contracts from Ilhan Omar's campaign during the 2020 cycle.