FACT CHECK · US POLITICS AND THE 2026 MIDTERMS
Claim: Omar was born in the US
FALSETHE ANSWER
Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1982; granted US asylum in 1995; citizen in 2000, at 17. Naturalized, not born here.
SOURCE
Biography.com, Ilhan Omar
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