Ilhan Omar responds to 'hateful rhetoric' by Fox News hosts about refugees: 'Not surprising'
Rep. Ilhan Omar appeared on The ReidOut Tuesday, where the Minnesota Democrat responded to right-wing figures like Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham pushing back against the United States accepting Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban. Carlson has even gone so far as to label the impending resettlement of refugees in the U.S. an invasion.
Omar came to the U.S. as a refugee in the ’90s, after her family fled Somalia and lived in a refugee camp for four years, so her views differ greatly from those of Carlson and Ingraham.
“It is not surprising, right?” Omar said when asked about comments from Carlson and Ingraham. “This is their playbook. They know how to whip up their base into frenzy.” She later added, “You have the man who led us into this war, President Bush, say we should allow for Afghani refugees. And then you've got these crazy people on the right doing, you know, what they always do with their fear mongering and their hateful rhetoric.”
Ingraham, along with former President Trump’s past adviser Stephen Miller, has taken the angle of questioning whether or not the U.S. will be able to properly vet the refugees that will be brought in. But as someone who is familiar with the process, Omar is not concerned.
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