Huldah Momanyi-Hiltsley, a Kenyan-born Minnesota House representative for District 38A, has revealed that she voted against a bill seeking to exclude undocumented immigrant adults from a healthcare plan, MinnesotaCare.
Taking to social media after casting her vote, the US lawmaker recalled her near deportation when she was younger, asserting that her decision to oppose the bill stemmed from the compassion she received during that period.
She recalled that just two days before her planned deportation, an intervention by the then-Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone saved her family, and her stance was a reflection of that. "Some 48 hours from deportation as a child, my life was saved by compassion, not paperwork," she recalled.
A campaign poster bearing the image of Kenyan-American Huldah Momanyi.
