President Trump apparently called on four newly elected congresswomen of color to apologize to him after he said they should “go back” to their “broken and crime infested” countries. The comments were widely condemned as racist — and three of the four were born in the U.S.
President Trump apparently called on four newly elected congresswomen of color to apologize to him after he said they should “go back” to their “broken and crime infested” countries. The comments were widely condemned as racist — and three of the four were born in the U.S.
“If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out,” he wrote. The nativist rhetoric “go back to your country” is often used in racist and xenophobic attacks, including a recent hate crime in New York City last week in which a female Hispanic construction worker was attacked and told, “You’re here taking jobs from Americans.”
The four newly elected Democratic women, who call themselves “the squad,” are Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Omar became a refugee at age 10 when a brutal civil war devastated Somalia, a predominantly Muslim country in East Africa, and became a U.S. citizen in 2000.
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