Ilhan Omar actually said...

Here in Minnesota, we don’t just welcome refugees and immigrants, we send them to Washington.

The biggest part of my story and my success is the enormous welcome and generosity of my Minnesota neighbors.

My hope is that we do... open our eyes to that potential—and do whatever we can to keep that American exceptionalism alive.

I actually was an East-African refugee, and a very visibly Muslim immigrant in Congress, and a Black woman.