Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar, a refugee from Somalia, believes that the United States of America, the nation where her family fled, is becoming one of the worst countries in the world, yet she chooses to stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a recent interview with Democracy Now, Omar pointed out that U.S. troops were sent to put down protests in Los Angeles during the same week the Trump administration held a massive military parade to celebrate 250 years of the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCan you imagine that image that is going to be coming out of our country? I mean, I grew up in a dictatorship, and I don\u2019t even remember ever witnessing anything like that,\u201d the representative said, referring to Somalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo have a democracy, a beacon of hope for the world, to now be turned into one of the, you know, one of the worst countries, where the military are in our streets without any regard for people\u2019s constitutional rights, while our president\u2019s spending millions of dollars propping himself up like a failed dictator with a military parade \u2014 it is really shocking,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt should be a wake-up call for all Americans to say, \u2018This is not the country we were born in. It\u2019s not the country we believe in. This is not the country our Founding Fathers imagined, and this is not the country that is supported by our Constitution, our ideals, our values,\u2019\u201d the woman, who was not actually born in the United States, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd we should all collectively be out in the streets, rejecting what is taking place this week,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think the person who is in the process of destroying our country should look in the mirror and that\u2019s Trump,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd notice that he is the one that has hatred for the values that we have here in America and everything that we have built. The reality is protest, dissent, is constitutionally protected that is everybody\u2019s First Amendment right in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minnesota Democrat and Squad member faced immediate backlash on X for her comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n