There’s an old adage, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” It recognizes the universal tactic for doing well away from home. Rep. Ilhan Omar is from Somalia. This we know. Just about all of the other details of her journey to this point are murky at best. The other thing we know is Omar probably would not do in Rome what the Romans do.
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The official story is that she was born in Mogadishu in 1982. After civil war erupted in her homeland, her family fled to Kenya in the early 1990s. They stayed in a refugee camp in that country for a few years, and then in 1995, the family resettled to the U.S. If you believe Omar,
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