Overview
- In a Face the Nation interview Sunday, the Minnesota Democrat called Miller’s message white supremacist rhetoric and warned that dehumanizing language can lead to violence.
- Miller wrote that “no magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders” and that migrants and their descendants “recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”
- Omar also condemned President Donald Trump’s recent statements, noting he called Somali immigrants “garbage” and said she “should be thrown the hell out of our country.”
- Fox News reported the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Omar’s comparison.
- Coverage pointed to Minnesota’s pandemic-era fraud prosecutions as context, with prosecutors saying more than 75 people have been charged and ICE launching an enforcement operation in the Twin Cities.