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Ann Coulter digs into Ilhan Omar’s family history — and zeroes in on her father

September 22, 2026 | | Print Article

Ann Coulter is going viral for her brutal takedown of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, and her immigration story.

While it’s generally assumed that those who immigrate to the United States are poor refugees in search of freedom and a better life, Coulter reminds us that this is not always the case. In fact, sometimes people are forced to flee their home countries because the regime they served at home collapsed under the weight of its own tyranny.

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“Ilhan Omar, how did she get in? Well, her parents, her father was a refugee, they were being persecuted back in Somalia. ‘Why were they being persecuted, Ann?’ They were being persecuted because her father worked for a brutal, Marxist, Muslim dictator, Siad Barre, who committed what’s called a Somali Holocaust,” Coulter explained. “Slaughtered 600,000, it’s estimated 600,000 Somalis. Destroyed and leveled some of Somalia’s biggest towns. So once Barre was deposed, people didn’t like that. So anyone who had worked for him, such as the family of Ilhan Omar, someone came and shot in their house one day. I think it was when Ilhan was eight years old. She describes militants coming and shooting through their house, and the family all dove for the ground, and the bullets hit the walls, and that’s why they had to hightail it out of there and they went to Kenya.”

“Don’t know why they couldn’t have stayed in Kenya,” Coulter continues. “There’s one problem with our immigration system. Even if you’re really fleeing persecution, why do you have to come here?”

“This is yet another problem with our refugee system. The idea of refugees was, you have Einstein, who’s being persecuted in Nazi Germany. So, point one, none of these guys are Einsteins,” she adds.  Point two, there is no Nazi Germany; there is no Hitler out there. As the Ilhan Omar case illustrates, sometimes people are being persecuted for a reason. They persecuted others; now they fall out of power, and after they slaughter half their countrymen, we’re supposed to ‘Oh, no please, come here. Welcome!'”

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