Ilhan Omar was never supposed to be an equal

In the early hours of 12 October, US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home in Washington, DC, was raided by federal agents. They spent hours combing through her belongings, Omar said, emerging with 17 items , including phones, notebooks and a Somali-language phrasebook, before leaving her residence. It soon came out that authorities were investigating whether her family had falsified her immigration paperwork decades earlier, with the aim of stripping her of her citizenship and deporting her.