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General News on Friday, August 2nd, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-08-02
Ilhan Omar and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Ghana
Somali-born Somali MP Ilhan Omar visited President Donald Trump with footage of his recent trip to Ghana.
Last month, President Trump provoked a lot of turmoil when he urged a handful of women members of the Democratic Congress to "go back and help repair the totally devastated and infested places of the crimes from which they came."
Referring to President Trump's comment in an Instagram article, Ilhan Omar shared a photo of herself and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Ghana.
She wrote: "They said" send it back ", but the President @SpeakerPelosi did not make the necessary arrangements to send me back, she came back with me ????? So grateful for the honor to return to Africa with @TheBlackCaucus and commemorate the year of return! #Doorofreturn #Ghana ".
Ilhan Omar was among the black caucus members of the US Congress who traveled to Ghana with Ms. Pelosi. The representative of the 5th District Minnesota Congress received huge acclaim when she was introduced to the Ghanaian Parliament by Ms. Pelosi on Wednesday.
She was born in Somalia and became an American citizen in adolescence.
Trump comments
In a series of tweets last July, Trump did not mention any names, but the majority of media and social media users badumed that he was referring to new women in Congress, including Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley.
He also suggested that President Pelosi would be "very happy to be able to quickly develop free travel arrangements".
A few days after his comments, the people attending his rally launched the slogan "Send it back!" when the president was talking about Omar.
About Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (born October 4, 1982) is an American politician who has represented the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota since 2019. The United States is represented in this constituency. It includes the whole of Minneapolis and part of its suburbs.
Omar was elected to the House of Representatives of Minnesota in 2016 on the line of the Democratic-Peasant-Labor Party. In 2018, she was elected to the US House of Representatives, marking a number of historic electoral elections: she is the first American of Somali descent, the first naturalized African citizen, and the first non-white woman elected from Minnesota , the first two Muslim women (with Rashida Tlaib from Michigan) to sit in Congress.
They said "send it back" but the President @SpeakerPelosi did not make arrangements to send me back, she left with me ?????
So grateful for the honor of returning to Africa with the @TheBlackCaucus and commemorate the year of return! #Doorofreturn #Ghana pic.twitter.com/0yVBLcAE5
– Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) August 1, 2019
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