U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is rising on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as she steps into the role of vice chair of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over Africa and global human rights issues.
Omar’s office said her new position was being announced Thursday in Washington. The panel’s full name is the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.
“Upholding basic human rights around the world is a core priority for me and the Fifth District of Minnesota,” Omar, a Democrat, said in a prepared statement. “As someone who represents a large African diaspora community and is the first African-born immigrant to serve in Congress, I am particularly excited to play a leadership role in overseeing our international aid and foreign policy on the continent.”
The Twin Cities boasts the largest Somali community in the U.S. Omar was born in Somalia but her family left amid civil war when she was a child.
Since joining Congress in 2019, Omar has sought to bring her unique background to bear on foreign policy legislation and advocacy of global human rights. She has called for an overhaul of the U.S. approach to foreign policy in a way that puts more importance on how it impacts countries around the world.
In her new role, Omar said she’s particularly interested “in overseeing our international aid and foreign policy” in Africa. “Amidst a global pandemic that has devastated people’s livelihoods everywhere, it is important to make sure that the most vulnerable in Minnesota and around the world are getting access to much-needed aid and medicine.”
Omar has retained her position on the House Foreign Affairs Committee despite past calls from some critics that she be removed following widely criticized remarks she made in 2019 about Israel’s political influence in U.S. politics.
Patrick Condon
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This is a pure example of how this “Socialist Democrat Party State”
is attempting to destroy our country and our culture.
When it comes to culture, you create a cultured pearl by putting a piece of irritating sand into the clam who creates the pearl in self-defense. The swampy Democrats hope to accomplish the same thing by planting irritating Party members into the body of our government, thinking to create pearls of Socialist wisdom and shining success stories. The problem is that WE THE PEOPLE are not bottom feeding spineless invertebrate Democrat mollusks, designed to clam up and cover up when maladministration mistakes are made, and our American pearls get cast before Socialist swine.
As a Judeo/Christian formed country, we should not allow Islam into the government mix.
Nuff said.
Deuteronomy 17:15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
This is as moronic, as having Saudi, or Libya, or china being on the “UN Human rights council’.
Putting Omar in that position is what’s known as having the wolf guard the hen house. We can look forward to having a a new wave of muslims and poor blacks from Africa flooding this country, all for the taxpaying citizens to take care of.
The beginning of the end for the United States as we know it.
Her elevation in foreign affairs, like marrying your foreign born brother to keep him in America, will just help cement the downfall of the Democrat House in 2022. Even the illegals are getting fed up in Democrats making America a place many soon will never want to break into. Never under estimate a Democrat Party’s ability to destory itself in power grabs and maladministration. Pelsosi’s rule is a dead man walking and she has not the inteligence to see the 2022 train that is coming. She will go down in history as the most failed Speaker on record, certainly regarding impeachmentrs, and if she and her squad of harpies hang around after the 2022 Republicans take over the House may face imeachment themselves.
That’s why i will NEVER EVER call a commucrat, a “Progressive”.. IF anything they are regressive.
“The Twin Cities boasts the largest Somali community in the U.S.” Yep, Omar is for “global human rights”. Oh how nice and cozy, a terrorist (Omar) is for “global human rights” and the destruction of the United States of America. This is the greatness of “racism”, “terrorism” and “diversity”, destroying the United States and the destruction is well on its way! Oh, Omar you are such a gift to the leftist traitors!
“According to statistics kept by the Minnesota Department of Health, the state began accepting Somali “primary” refugee arrivals in 1993. Primary refugee arrivals remained at several hundred a year throughout the 1990s and exploded in the 2000s, reaching a peak of 3,639 in 2006.”
Bill CLinton was inaugerated in 1993,,,,,,,,,,:That’s another fine mess you got us into Ollie.” with help I’m sure from Obama and Ted Kennedy. Just what is the per Capita income contribution of the average Somali?,,,,,we know what it is to the Democrats. How many are on the government dole?
According to 2019 American Community Survey Somalians are at the bottom of the list at average income per family of $20, 600
Since after almost 30 years in the country Somalia immigrants are obviously taking more in government services than contributing in national wealth creation, so just how do they merit a Congressional Representative, and why are they not given orders to return from where they came? American Social failure should not be an option and when failed after given a chance, stop the insanity, or at least don’t let in ito your Congressional houses to magnify the Failed Democrat Social experiments even more, let alone put ANY into positions of power over Self-governing Americans of any national origin.
AND how many of those somalis HAVE BECOME American citizens IF ANY?? IF not all or a solid majority of them, then why the hell should someone in congress BE THERE TO REPRESENT THEM!?!?!
i never thought i would see the day that america would be clinging to the rim of the bowl.
The DemocRAT Party is now comprised of Marxist Communists and Islamic Terrorists lying and cheating their way to total control. If they are able push HR1 down our throats, we can kiss a two party system good bye forever!!!!
If you are new Republican House member, you lose your committee assignments for things said before you were elected. However, a sitting member with a bunch of suspect activities since election including participating in illegal vote harvesting and immigration fraud gets a plumb assignment where she can damage all citizens interests. Same as that guy over in Intelligence who has a nasty tie with a Chinese spy.
AND What has happened, WITH THAT supposed investigation INTO HER voter harvesting, that veritas uncovered?? OR like i fear, it was shut down, swept under the rug never again, to see the light of day??