Ilhan Omar

We know that he called African nations a shithole in his first administration.

We know that when he came down that escalator, he said he was going to stop Muslim immigration

into this country.

And so it is not surprising that he is going after black immigrants in this country.

And it's certainly not surprising that he's choosing a black immigrant community that is also Muslim.

But what I would like to say is that most of us are citizens on our passport.

It says we are nationals of this country.

We love

that Minnesota has welcomed us.

Many of us have not been settled in Minnesota.

We chose it as a home because the Minnesota people and the state is beautiful and very welcoming, and we are going to be here regardless of what the president has to say.

You have these kind of new programs that are designed to help people.

You're oftentimes relying on third parties to be able to facilitate.

And I just think that a lot of the COVID programs that were set up, they were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created.

As you can see, we have a wonderful group here again today.

The purpose of being here is we've been signing a lot of bills.

We've been welcoming our neighbors back into their communities by making sure we're restoring voting rights to folks.

We're making sure that our neighbors can drive to their kids' soccer games.

We're making moves as we talk about the state budget simultaneously, making sure that when we've talked about One Minnesota,

We mean every single person to feel valued, loved, seen, heard, and respected in the state of Minnesota.