And my mother was the firstborn of her family and she wanted to help her dad economically. She wanted to help make sure her siblings were raised well. She was an ethnic minority too. She was. She's of Yemeni heritage. And so she was very adamant that any suitor had to agree to move in with her family, which was a cultural. (20:33–20:36)
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Asserts that Ilhan Omar's mother is of Yemeni heritage.
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