Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said that the United States is becoming “one of the worst countries” in the world after President Donald Trump and Republican governors deployed the National Guard to quell anti-ICE riots.
Speaking to the leftist news program “Democracy Now,” Omar — who grew up in Somalia during a time of anarchy — said that she doesn’t “remember ever witnessing anything like” what she sees in the United States.
“To have democracy, a beacon of hope for the world, to now be turned into one of the worst countries, where the military are in our streets without any regard for people’s constitutional rights, while our president is spending millions of dollars propping himself up like a failed dictator with a military parade, it is really shocking and it should be a wake-up call for all Americans to say this is not the country we were born in, and this is not the country we believe in.”
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