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First Muslim Congresswoman Shares Immigrant Story
Brut America
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3/25/2025
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is using her own immigration story to contradict misinformation about asylum seekers at the U.S./Mexico border.
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I cry every time I see a little girl standing in the desert waiting to get processed into this country
00:09
because I remember what that felt like.
00:24
In the dead of night, we decided we weren't just going to wait in our home.
00:30
And wait for militia to find us. Wait for us to starve.
00:36
Wait for my sisters, my aunties and the women in our family to get raped.
00:44
But we were going to risk the walk to cross the border into Kenya.
00:49
We were going to risk the starvation to find a new life.
00:54
We were going to risk it all.
00:56
And so I understand the pain, the fear, the struggles.
01:16
But the difference between what is happening to some of these little girls and me
01:21
is that I didn't have a cage waiting for me.
01:26
I had an open arm.
01:29
People with moral clarity awaiting us and saying,
01:35
you've been through a lot.
01:37
Here is your new home.
01:39
You're our new neighbor.
01:41
You need water.
01:45
And in this country, in the United States,
01:49
people are not welcomed that way.
01:53
They are separated and processed.
02:00
They are detained and tortured.
02:15
And we can't continue to allow that to happen.
02:19
At least not under our watch.
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