It seems like the president really has taken an issue with immigrants,

has taken an issue with refugees, has banned Somalis from entering this country.

And so I think it is a nightmare in itself to now have the person who is going to provide that check and balance.

Be a Somali Muslim refugee immigrant.

I'm Mehdi Hassan, welcome to Deconstructed.

My guest this week has been on the cover of Time magazine, which described her as one of a handful of women who are changing the world.

Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia, but at the age of eight was living in a refugee camp in Kenya.

She arrived in the US age 12 and able to speak English.

But two years ago, age 33 she was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives.

And now, age just 35, she's heading for Congress.

Last month, she decisively beat five other candidates in the primary race to fill representative Keith Ellison's seat in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District,

which luckily for her has been a democratic safe seat since 1962.

In November, Omar will become the first refugee from Africa, the first Somali American,

one of the first two Muslim American women and the first woman in a headscarf to be elected to the United States Congress.

And she'll be part of not just a historic wave of female congressional candidates,

but a new left-wing insurgency intent on taking Washington DC and the Democratic Party establishment by storm when the new House returns in January.

In many ways, Omar is the anti-Trump.

She represents everything the president loathes, everything he stands against is Islam, refugees, Black people, Africa, women, progressives.

And she's well aware of the fact that a lot of people are counting on her to make a difference, to inspire hope.

Here she is speaking at her election night, Victory Rally, last month.

And around the world, get from seeing your beautiful faces,

elect and believe in someone like me.

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