These Jewish refugees were elected to Congress before @IlhanMN Omar jta.org/quick-reads/th… via @jtanews
Omar, who was born in Somalia, lists herself as the first refugee elected to the body. Not true.
* The late Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who made human rights a hallmark of his leadership on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee.
* Former Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn., who as a toddler fled Nazi Germany with his family for the United States and who also has played a prominent role in human rights advocacy.
* Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., just retired, who is of Jewish descent, arrived in Florida as a child of a family fleeing Cuba.
* Rep. Joseph Cao, R-La., the first Vietnamese American elected to Congress, served one term (2009-2011).
* Rep. Joseph Cao, R-La., the first Vietnamese American elected to Congress, served one term (2009-2011).
And former Republican Florida Rep. Lincoln Díaz-Balart, also born in Cuba to a family who fled after Fidel Castro seized power, should also be added to the list.
Two more errors on @IlhanMN 's list: Her fellow anti-Semite @RashidaTlaib, whom she lists as the first Palestinian American; is preceded by Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., and former Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H.
My own note: Omar and Tlaib are also not the first, or only, anti-Semitic Democrat members of Congress.
