Ilhan Omar

No, I think it was really unavoidable.

The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents.

I mean, isn't it just a sad moment for our country when a member of Congress has to remind the president of the United States that black people aren't apes?

I mean, just for a moment, think about that.

Al was escorted because he refused to sit down.

And I stand with Al.

I think it is an important moment in our nation's history that we have to take stance like that.

We have to remind a sitting president that we black people are not apes.

Correct.

Can you scare an employer in this country, whether he's an agriculture worker or a housewife, into not hiring an illegal because the punishment's so high that if you get caught, it's a huge embarrassment to your family, and you may just get hit with a fine that'll kill you.

Absolutely, you can't.

And that's what we should do.

Well, I think we should do that.

Yeah.

I like the English part.

If we want the problems of Canada right now, keep encouraging people to keep their foreign language.

English is going to unite this country potentially.

It always has in the past.

We do believe that one of the reasons why he sent this paramilitary occupation into our state, why this level of terror is taking place, why we are seeing the kind of chaos that is ensuing, is because he does want to invoke the Insurrection Act.

And we are telling our constituents not to take the bait.