How better can things get?
23 years ago, incoming Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) jetted into the US as a refugee from Kenya and started her journey in the country that has seen her now elected as the first Somali-American congress representative.
In an emotional reflections on the eve of her swearing-in, she posted a picture on Twitter reminiscing on her experience entering America as a refugee. Omar posted a picture Wednesday of herself and her father in a Washington, D.C.-area airport.
“Twenty-three years ago, from a refugee camp in Kenya, my father and I arrived at an airport in Washington DC,” Omar said in her post. “Today, we return to that same airport on the eve of my swearing in as the first Somali-American in Congress.”
23 years ago, from a refugee camp in Kenya, my father and I arrived at an airport in Washington DC.
Today, we return to that same airport on the eve of my swearing in as the first Somali-American in Congress. #Hope #Ilhan 🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/jVeP3DOipN
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 2, 2019
Omar came to the U.S. at the age of 12 as a Somali refugee cast out of her country by a civil war in her home country. She spent time at a refugee camp in Kenya before coming to America with her father.