She keeps pushing her Anti-American rhetoric…
Rep. Ilhan Omar attacked President Trump for referring to illegal immigrants as illegal aliens, tweeting, “No one is an ‘alien.’” She continued by attacking the DOJ, writing, “The DOJ now mandates that public officials only use the term ‘illegal aliens.’ This is straight out of the demagogue’s playbook.” Finally she concluded by saying, “The word illegal alone, in the context of immigration, casts a dark and misleading cloud implying that immigrants who cross a border without authorization have no rights.”
Omar is unaware that the U.S Code consistently refers to illegal immigrants as “aliens,” and so Trump and the Department of Justice are simply echoing the language of the U.S. Code.
The series of incidents began with Trump tweeting of ICE’s plans to remove illegal immigrants:
….long before they get to our Southern Border. Guatemala is getting ready to sign a Safe-Third Agreement. The only ones who won’t do anything are the Democrats in Congress. They must vote to get rid of the loopholes, and fix asylum! If so, Border Crisis will end quickly!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2019
Omar quickly went on her rampage, starting by pronouncing “No one is an alien” and ending by quoting Dreisen Heath, Human Rights’ Senior Coordinator in the United States program, who wrote that the word “illegal” implied that illegal immigrants “have no rights.”
No one is an “alien.”
This is family separation on a massive scale.
Dehumanizing immigrants and tearing apart families will not make us any stronger. It will only destroy lives, traumatize children, and make our country less safe. https://t.co/a8q9YV3AGX
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 18, 2019
To the trolls:
Trump uses dehumanizing language like “aliens” “illegals” or even “animals” to justify horrific human rights abuses against migrants. The DOJ now mandates that public officials only use the term “illegal aliens.”
This is straight out of the demagogue’s playbook. https://t.co/mEqPJSP95Z
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 19, 2019
“The word illegal alone, in the context of immigration, casts a dark and misleading cloud implying that immigrants who cross a border without authorization have no rights.” https://t.co/P0G32XCcuU
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 19, 2019
