It has been a remarkable journey by any measure - from a child in war-torn Somalia to a refugee camp in Kenya and, now, to a seat in Congress.
Ms Ilhan Omar, who was just 14 when her family left that Kenyan camp for a better life in Washington DC, has become the first Somali-American in Congress.
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