Republican Senator #RandPaul wants to buy Minnesota Congresswoman #IlhanOmar a ticket to Somalia so she will reportedly “appreciate America more.”
Paul is following up on #Trump’s controversial “send her back” comments, @nypost reports. He defended the president’s racist tweets about Omar and three other freshman Democratic congresswomen in which he called for them to “go back to totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” despite the fact that the other three were born in America.
“While I’m not saying we forcibly send her anywhere, I’m willing to contribute to buy her a ticket to go visit Somalia, and I think she could look and maybe learn a little bit about the disaster that is Somalia – that has no capitalism, has no God-given rights guaranteed in a constitution, and has about seven different tribes that have been fighting each other for the last 40 years,” Paul told Breitbart in an interview. ”And then, maybe after she’s visited Somalia for a while, she might come back and appreciate America more.”
Paul continued saying that he’s met Somalian refugees in Kentucky and “most of them were grateful,” but he feels Omar is “about as ungrateful as you can get.”
Omar has defended her post by saying that she and her family came to the U.S. to find a better life and to escape the “horrors of civil war.”
“The ideals at the heart of our founding -- equal protection under the law, pluralism, religious liberty – are under attack, and it is up to all of us to defend them,” she wrote in an opinion piece for the New York Times.
Trump’s comments eventually prompted the House of Representatives to pass a resolution condemning his remarks.
We’re hoping that none of the people who have threatened violence against Omar act on their words. We’ll keep you posted on any updates, Roommates.
