Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants garbage'
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Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants garbage'
"We're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage, the US president said. These aren't people that work. These aren't people that say, Let's go, come on. Let's make this place great.' These are people that do nothing but complain. They complain, and from where they came from, they got nothing."
"Progressive United States Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has hit back against Donald Trump after the president criticised her and renewed his attacks on the Somali community in Minnesota. During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Trump embarked on a racist tirade, describing Omar and other Somali immigrants as garbage and calling for them to leave the US. His obsession with me is creepy, Omar wrote on social media in response. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs."
President Trump criticized Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants during a cabinet meeting, calling them 'garbage' and urging they leave the United States. He characterized them as people who do not work, who only complain, and used a recent shooting to justify tightening immigration from third-world countries. Ilhan Omar, a former child refugee and the first Somali American in Congress, responded on social media by calling his obsession with her 'creepy' and hoping he gets necessary help. Omar represents a Minnesota district with one of the largest Somali diasporas, a community facing higher unemployment and poverty rates similar to other refugee groups.
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