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'This is what racism looks like': Congresswomen react to Trump's 'go back' tweetstorm

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Rashida Tlaib gave impassioned testimony at a hearing on migrant facilities. USA TODAY.
The four progressive freshman congresswomen who have come to be known as "the Squad' reacted on Sunday to President Donald Trump seemingly suggesting they "go back" to the countries they "originally came from" instead of telling Americans "how our government is to be run."

Although he did not mention any lawmakers by name, it was widely assumed his tweets were referring to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.; and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.

All four are American citizens. Ocasio-Cortez was born in New York City, Pressley was born in Cincinnati and Tlaib was born in Detroit. Omar was born in Somalia. Her family fled that country's civil war when she was 8 years old and spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before arriving in the U.S. and settling in Minneapolis in 1997, according to her biography. 

"So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run," Trump tweeted.

Source:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/14/ocasio-cortez-omar-pressley-tlaib-respond-trump-tweet/1729018001/