Ilhan Omar attacked President Trump on Twitter for using the accurate legal term to describe illegal immigrants.
However, Twitter users were quick to point out that Trump was semantically accurate.
Per FoxNews, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., took aim at President Trump for calling illegal immigrants “aliens,” and accused the current administration of dehumanizing immigrants.
“No one is an ‘alien,'” she tweeted. She was responding to Trump announcing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would “begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States.”
No one is an "alien."
This is family separation on a massive scale.
Dehumanizing immigrants and tearing apart families will not make us any stronger. It will only destroy lives, traumatize children, and make our country less safe. https://t.co/a8q9YV3AGX
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 18, 2019
“Dehumanizing immigrants and tearing apart families will not make us any stronger. It will only destroy lives, traumatize children, and make our country less safe,” Omar also said.
Many on Twitter fired back at Omar, pointing out Trump was accurate.
It seriously stresses me out that I have to explain this to a sitting member of Congress. People from another country are in fact defined as “aliens “. #TheMoreYouKnow.
It seriously stresses me out that I have to explain this to a sitting member of Congress. People from another country are in fact defined as “aliens “. #TheMoreYouKnow. pic.twitter.com/PW15Ru02ld
— Dread Pirate Charlie (@ceaster14) June 18, 2019
Classic example of a leftist trying to redefine a word to confuse…
Its what they do…
Classic example of a leftist trying to redefine a word to confuse…
Its what they do…— Texas Guy (@Collinsdw) June 18, 2019
Please consult a dictionary
Please consult a dictionary; pic.twitter.com/Kcl1tqcbQZ
— Tony Vance (@TonyVance1966) June 18, 2019
https://t.co/GjYQbWMWTF This is a legal term of art. Maybe you should change the law to call them "magic awesome people we can never get enough of."
— Nathan M. Hansen (@nathanmhansen) June 18, 2019