Analysis: The two freshmen House members at the center of a ferocious political fight
Rep. Ilhan Omar participates in a news conference to call on Congress to cut funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, at the Capitol in Washington on Feb. 7. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow April 15 at 10:45 AM Rep. Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia in 1981. She and her family immigrated to the United States in 1992, fleeing war in their home country. They were granted asylum and moved to Minnesota.
Beside these differences in their districts, Omar and Crenshaw represent different factions of American politics, reflecting and expanding upon the differences in their party identifications. That’s meant that Omar — as a progressive and a target of the right — has been mentioned by Crenshaw with regularity. He disparaged comments she made during the partial government shutdown; he joined in the criticism she faced over her Israel comments.
The day after Crenshaw tweeted about her CAIR speech, Omar introduced a bill ending Trump’s ban on migration targeting several Muslim-majority countries such as Somalia. On Friday, Trump himself tweeted a video blending Omar’s CAIR comments with footage from the 9/11 attacks, under the all-caps phrase “WE WILL NEVER FORGET!”
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