'You can't leave fast enough,' President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter, referencing progressive Democratic congresswomen.
The president wrote:"Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came," after lashing out at the"'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen" for"telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run." He added:"you can't leave fast enough.
Although Trump did not mention specific names, his comments were seen as a clear reference to Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts. As Amash and others pointed out, Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley were all born in the U.S. Omar immigrated to the U.S. in 1992 as a refugee originally from war-torn Somalia and has been a naturalized citizen since 2000, nearly two decades ago.
Ocasio-Cortez is ethnically Puerto Rican, which is not an independent country and is part of the U.S. All Puerto Ricans are American citizens by birth. Pressley is a black American, and was born in Ohio then raised in Illinois. Tlaib's parents, like Amash's father, immigrated to the U.S. from the Palestinian Territories, which the U.S. does not officially recognize as a sovereign state. She was born and raised in Michigan.
Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley attend a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on the Trump Administration's child separation policy on July 12 in Washington, D.C.Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi strongly condemned Trump's"xenophobic comments" in a series of Twitter posts.
"When @realDonaldTrump tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to 'Make America Great Again' has always been about making America white again," she wrote."Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power."
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