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President Trump, in a Sunday Twitter thread, called out Democratic Congresswomen, telling them “why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run” Trump tweeted.
“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” his thread continued. “Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!”
The nativist rhetoric, “go back to your country,” is often used in racist, Xenophobic and Islamophobic attacks, including a recent hate crime in New York City last week where a Hispanic woman was attacked and told, “You’re here taking jobs from Americans.”
Trump’s tweets further stirred an ongoing, racially-tinged feud between House progressives and the Democratic establishment.
Tensions in the Democratic party escalated after House Speaker Pelosi slighted the influence of four freshman House Democrats who were the only lawmakers to vote against her border aid bill, which was eventually ditched for a Republican-backed Senate version of the bill that passed 305-102.
"All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” Pelosi told the New York Times, referring to the “squad” of young House progressives. But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got."
The four progressives included Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. The women of color were born in the United States, except for Omar who became a refugee in 1991 when a brutal civil war devastated Somalia, a predominantly Muslim country in East Africa, where at least one American among the 27 died in a terrorist attack Saturday.
Omar became a citizen in 2000, and after the 2018 midterm elections, became the first-ever Somali-American in Congress and the first hijab-wearing Muslim member of the House, where she is the whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Source - Yahoo News
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