Congresswoman, if I may... I'll probably disagree with you on many issues. Or, maybe, on some. On Israel, likely. It's cool, I can live with that. People disagree about crap. It's normal.
But here is why I support you and, had I lived in MN-5, would have voted for you... (thread) https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1321198507781480449

... Those of us who came here as refugees, as you well know, have a very heightened sense of what it means to be an American. This is because we have come here with a purpose. We have suffered to get here. Got over fear and loss and existential dread to be here. To be American...

We didn't come here to "turn America into the shithole they escaped", we didn't come here to "undermine this country with their foreign values." We came here to be citizens. Not 2nd-class citizens, for once, normal-class citizens. Endowed w/ full rights and a sense of belonging..

Yet all of us, at one point or another, had to face the ugliness. The mistrust. The prejudice. The suspicion that our opinions, our principles, our politics have nothing to do with us as individuals exercising freedom but are a product of our foreignness, our inherent danger...

Those of us who propose changes, support reforms, protest against injustice are said to do it because of our hatred for this country, not our love for it and a sincere desire to make it better. The mere fact of our birth, its geographical location, makes us contemptible...