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Ilhan Omar Also Called for Opponent to Be 'Deported' | Breitbart

posted onJuly 24, 2019
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Article snippet: Last Sunday, President Donald Trump tweeted that Omar and three other far-left Democratic congresswomen in the so-called “Squad” should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came” and then “come back and show us how it is done.” He did not call for them to be deported, and later clarified that he meant simply that if they did not like the U.S., they should leave. Some members of a large rally crowd in North Carolina chanted “Send her back,” in reference to Omar, during Trump’s speech there last Wednesday. The president disavowed it the next day. But Omar has, in fact, called for an opponent to be deported. Her tweet, from 2012, was unearthed as a similar tweet from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MN) — one of the other “Squad” members — surfaced, in which she declared “Deport this asshole!” in 2015. Omar’s tweet read: “we are citizens & can’t be deported, why don’t we deport you to where ever you came from.” Omar was responding to a thread of comments on an article about how a mayor in Maine said that Somali immigrants to the community should “accept our culture and leave your culture at the door.” During the course of the debate, Omar defended the right of Somalis not to assimilate: “Most people I know keep and maintain their culture,” she said, adding, “[d]on’t expect us to change either. We have as much right to be here as you.” One of her interlocutors, who appears to be female and has a “protected” account, seems to hav... Link to the full article to read more

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