Ilhan Omar is known as a Somali-American politician. She is most famous for being the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district.
Ilhan Abdullahi Omar was born on October 4, 1981 in Mogadishu, Somalia. Ilhan and her family fled Somalia when she was eight years of age. They lived in a refugee camp in Kenya for a long time before going to the United States, eventually settling in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis in 1997.
Ilhan's enthusiasm for legislative issues started at 14 years old when she was as a translator for her grandfather at nearby DFL councils. Watching neighbors meet up to fight for change at the grassroots level made Ilhan become hopelessly enamored with the law process.
In 2016, Ilhan turned into the first Somali-American, Muslim administrator in the United States. With the assistance of her campaign group, they expanded voter turnout by 37%. She was chosen for the Minnesota House of Representatives in District 60B, where she's lived for as long as 20 years and where her and her better half Ahmed are bringing up their three children.
In 2018, Ilhan was chosen for the Congress representing the Fifth Congressional District of Minnesota. Upon her initial three months in office, Ilhan presented the No Ban Act, battling Donald Trump's xenophobic Muslim Ban, she additionally co-supported the Yemen War Powers Resolution that would end U.S. contribution in the war in Yemen, she pushed to expand DED status for the Liberian people group in Minnesota, joined the Black Maternal Health Caucus as an establishing member and she has reliably worked to demonstrate that the American Dream is for everybody.
In July 2019, Rep. Ilhan Omar tossed President Donald Trump's very own words back at him as the two traded tweets on Sunday. Reacting to a Trump tweet assaulting "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen," in which he proposed that the congresswomen supporter come “from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world,” Omar shot back at Trump calling him “the worst, most corrupt and inept president”:
In 2016, the gossip that Omar had married her sibling to help him get U.S. Citizenship status was particularly harming to her reputation. In tending to the bits of gossip, Omar said the allegation that her former spouse was additionally her sibling was ridiculous and hostile.
Ilhan Omar was first married to Ahmed Hirsi, in the Muslim confidence service in 2002. The two isolated in 2008 and not long after, in 2009, she married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Unfortunately, they isolated in 2011, and Elmi came back to England. Omar then requested separation from Elmi in 2017 and later got back with her first spouse, Hirsi. The pair got married in 2018.
| Birth Date: | 4 Oct, 1981 |
| Age: | 39 yrs |
| Citizenship: | United States of America Somalia |
| Birth Place: | Mogadishu |
| residence: | Minneapolis |
| Education: | North Dakota State University University of North Dakota |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American politician from Minnesota |
