'She's a living fire alarm, a warning to the rest of us that we better change our immigration system immediately, or else,' Carlson said of the freshman Democrat.
On Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson said during his Fox News broadcast that freshman Democrat Ilhan Omar, a Somali-American and one of the first Muslim women in Congress,"is living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country."
"It's disappointing to see Fox News give a nightly platform to the white supremacist rhetoric that's coming from the likes of him," Omar told reporters following a weekly caucus meeting."I truly believe he is a racist fool who is weeping about the fact that we have an African-born member of Congress, the kind of people that the likes of him think come from shithole countries.
Omar continued:"And the fact that he doesn't get the opportunity to ban me from this country—and now he gets to call me a 'congresswoman'—I'm sure this pisses him off. But he'll eventually get used to it. And I think that advertisers should not be underwriting this kind of dangerous, hateful rhetoric."
Omar, a liberal Democrat from Minnesota, came to the United States in 1995 after fleeing Somalia during the country's civil war in 1991 and spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp. Like her Democratic colleagues, she's criticized the administration for the handling of the influx of detained migrants at the southern border.
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