Ilhan Omar‘s family risked a four-day sea voyage that killed scores of others to escape Somalia’s civil war on the first leg of their journey to America, the Daily Mail can reveal, as her immigration story comes under renewed scrutiny.
Omar, who represents Minnesota‘s 5th District, fled Somalia with her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, when she was around eight years old, boarding a traditional wooden fishing dhow to escape a violent militia as Somalia descended into civil war in 1991.
Omar’s mother, Fadhuma Abukar Haji Hussein, had died when she was two, leaving her father and grandfather to raise her as the
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