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Republicans Want Ilhan Omar Deported Over Something She Didn’t Say
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) submitted a resolution on Thursday seeking to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), accusing the Somali-American congresswoman of making “treasonous statements” and of having “revealed herself to be a foreign agent acting on behalf of a foreign government,” through her support for the Somali community.
There’s just one problem: Omar didn’t actually give the statements quoted by Greene in her resolution. Greene’s is what appears to be an egregious mistranslations of a speech Omar gave at an event in Minneapolis — home to a large Somali immigrant population — on Saturday. Despite their inaccuracy, the alleged quotes have ginned up calls for Omar’s expulsion from the government and (even though she’s an American citizen) her deportation.
A video of the speech, which Omar delivered in Somali, superimposed with the faulty translations, went viral on social media over the weekend. It was quickly picked up by right-wing commentators and news outlets who were outraged over Omar’s purported statements, without bothering to verify the translation.
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