The tit-for-tat between Omar and Carlson first emerged Tuesday evening after the Fox News host, speaking about immigration, suggested the sitting member of Congress should not have been allowed into
As one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress and a Somali-American, Omar fled Somalia in 1991 during the country's civil war and spent four years at a Kenyan refugee camp. In 1995, she immigrated to the United States, eventually becoming elected in 2018 as a liberal Democrat from Michigan.
Wednesday evening, Carlson said she"has a lot to be grateful for, but she isn't at all. After everything America has done for Omar and her family, she hates this country more than ever," he added. Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks during a rally to express solidarity with immigrants and refugees hosted by MovOn, United We Dream, Families Belong Together and Popular Democracy near Union Station on May 16 in Washington, DC."So, be grateful for Ilhan Omar, annoying as she is," Carlson said Tuesday."She's a living fire alarm, a warning to the rest of us that we better change our immigration system immediately, or else.
"It's disappointing to see Fox News give a nightly platform to the white supremacist rhetoric that's coming from the likes of him," she said."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."
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