Ilhan Omar, a former refugee, was just elected to Minnesota’s house of representatives.
A Somali-born former refugee who made history by becoming the first Somali legislator in the United States has told the BBC that campaigning against the profiling of black Muslims will be one of her priorities.
Ilhan Omar, 34, was elected to serve in Minnesota’s state house of representatives.
She’s been speaking to the BBC’s Bola Mosuro about what she wants to achieve in office, and reflecting on how far she has come since coming to the US at the age of 12 with very little English:
“I only knew two words, which were ‘hello’ and ‘shut up’.”
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