Meme Misleads on Minnesota’s Somali Refugees
by Angelo Fichera
Feb 20, 2019
2 minutes
Quick Take
Facebook posts distort the number of Somali refugees who have resettled in Minnesota to advance an unsupported claim about a freshman congresswoman’s electoral victory.
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Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s family fled from her native Somalia and sought refuge in Kenya before resettling in the U.S., according to the biography on her campaign website. They settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1997.
Over two decades later, Omar her seat Muslim women, to serve in Congress.
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