Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called President Donald Trump’s comments on the American Somali community “completely disgusting” on Sunday.
During a Cabinet meeting last week, Trump railed against Somalis, saying he doesn’t “want them in our country.” His tirade came after reports of fraud within the Minnesota Somali community led Trump to terminate temporary protected status for Somalis in the state.
Omar, who immigrated to the United States in the 1990s after fleeing from civil war in Somalia, represents the district with the largest Somali community in the country. She blasted Trump’s comments in an interview with CBS’s Margaret Brennan on Sunday morning.
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“It’s completely disgusting. These are Americans that he is calling garbage. And we feel like there is an unhealthy obsession that he has on
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