Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and fellow traveler Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) held a press conference Thursday both to remind Americans that not everything woke in the federal government can be jettisoned through executive action and to advocate for the termination of President Donald Trump's authority to deport the citizens of an enemy nation.
THE BLAZE -- When explaining why Congress should pass her bill repealing the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — which Trump indicated would play a role in his crackdown on illegal immigration — Omar apparently identified who would benefit: criminals.
Glossing over illegal aliens' de facto violation of U.S. immigration law and evident contempt for American sovereignty, Omar claimed that they will not be kicked out of the country "because of anything they have done" but "because where they are from."
"The Trump administration's immigration policy is a threat to immigrants like criminals," said Omar. "America is too great to fall prey to Donald Trump's anti-immigrant agenda."