Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took to the Home ground on Thursday to introduce a decision calling for the Home of Representatives to censure Somalia refugee Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for her recent remarks indicating loyalty to the federal government of Somalia. Inexperienced’s decision additionally requires Omar to be faraway from two Home committees. Greene’s censure decision calls Omar’s remarks “treasonous.” In an announcement in regards to the decision, Greene calls Omar a international agent.
Greene mentioned she would favor for Omar to be expelled from Congress and deported from the US however she doesn’t imagine there are sufficient votes in Congress for that, so she opted to place forth a censure decision.
Home Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) has known as on Omar to resign and has filed a requirement for an Ethics Committee investigation of Omar, whereas Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has known as for Omar to be expelled from Congress, stripped of her American citizenship and deported.
Omar has mentioned her remarks, given in her native Somali language to a gathering of Somali-People in Minneapolis on Saturday, have been misinterpreted. Nonetheless, the popular translation nonetheless raises problems with her loyalty–as do different movies and information reviews of her speeches to Somali authorities officers the place she spoke utilizing the phrases “we” and “our” when talking to them about Somalia authorities points.
In a December 2022 speech in Minneapolis, Omar said she has a “special relationship” with Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, and referred to him as “our president.”
Movies of Greene saying, introducing and explaining the censure decision. Greene accused Omar of being a international agent.
As we speak, I’m introducing a Censure Decision on Ilhan Omar for admitting she’s working as a international agent for a international nation.
I urge my colleagues to vote to Censure, however I want I had the votes to expel and deport her. pic.twitter.com/yNuh2kf7Ii
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) February 1, 2024
🚨 BREAKING: I simply launched a decision to censure Ilhan Omar for her treasonous statements that she is serving as a international agent for a international nation. pic.twitter.com/1mI324w9uZ
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) February 1, 2024
.@mtgreenee speaks to reporters about censure decision over Ilhan Omar’s treasonous allegiance to Somalia. pic.twitter.com/c4EM84fyOf
— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) February 1, 2024
In a December 2022 journey to Somalia, Omar met with authorities leaders and spoke to them as if she was a fellow Somali offical, utilizing the phrases “we” and “our” (VOA excerpt):
U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar hailed latest victories scored by the Somali authorities and local people forces in opposition to al-Shabab militants in central Somali areas.
Omar, who was born in Somalia, has been visiting the nation since Thursday. In Mogadishu, she met with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre and members of the Cupboard and parliamentarians on Monday.
Talking at a dinner in her honor hosted by Barre, Omar congratulated the Somali leaders for the “large success” in opposition to al-Shabab militants.
Omar known as for collaboration in defeating the group she accused of “dishonoring” Islam.
“Our nation and our faith have been related to terrorism [because] of the dishonor they introduced on us,” she mentioned. “We have now to eliminate them as Somalis and as Muslims and pray and help one another in that work.”
The popular transcript of Omar’s remarks in Minneapolis on Saturday nonetheless increase problems with her loyalty, particularly when she once more calls the Somalia president “our president” (Translation via the Minnesota Reformer):
Remarks from U.S. Rep. Illan Omar:
We Somalis are individuals who love one another. It’s potential that we would typically have disagreements however we’re additionally individuals who can depend on one another. We’re people who find themselves siblings. We’re folks with braveness. We’re individuals who know that they’re Somali and Muslim. We’re individuals who help one another.
So once I heard that individuals who name themselves Somalis signed an settlement with Ethiopia, many individuals reached out to me and mentioned I wanted to speak to the U.S. authorities. They requested, what would the U.S. authorities do? My reply was that the U.S. authorities will do what we inform the U.S. authorities to do. That’s the confidence we have to have as Somalis. We dwell on this nation. That is the nation the place we pay taxes. That is the nation that has elected a girl out of your group. For so long as I’m in Congress, nobody will take over the seas belonging to the nation of Somalia and the US won’t help others who search to steal from us. So really feel comfy Somali Minnesotans that the lady you despatched to Congress is conscious of this concern and feels the identical manner you do.
I wish to inform President Hassan Sheikh that we’re proud of the nice work that you’ve got carried out. We’re completely happy that you’ve got made the folks of Somalia and those that dwell in all places really feel that regardless of how troublesome our present scenario, we’re individuals who have energy and who imagine of their nation.
I wish to congratulate Somalis residing in Minnesota and elsewhere for being united, for standing with our president as a result of he wants our help. Somalia is Somali. Somalia is one. We’re siblings. Our land won’t be divided. God keen we’ll search to return our lacking territory and won’t permit the territory we now have now to be divided.
I wish to thanks for the way you might have welcomed me. Might peace be upon you.
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Textual content of Greene’s proposed resolution to censure Omar:
RESOLUTION Censuring Consultant Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
Whereas elected Members of Congress take an oath to ‘‘bear true religion and allegiance’’ to the US, ‘‘with none psychological reservation or objective of evasion’’;
Whereas Consultant Ilhan Omar took an oath of allegiance to the US upon turning into a citizen, declaring, ‘‘I completely and completely surrender and abjure all allegiance and constancy to any international prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I’ve heretofore been a topic or citizen’’;
Whereas on January 27, 2024, Consultant Omar gave remarks at an occasion in Minneapolis by which she made treasonous statements;
Whereas Consultant Omar mentioned she has spoken to many Somalians who requested her to intercede for the Somali authorities by pressuring the US Authorities into sure actions;
Whereas Consultant Omar assured the Somalians she spoke to, ‘‘the U.S. Authorities will solely do what Somalians within the U.S. inform them to do. They are going to do what we would like and nothing else. They have to comply with our orders and that’s how we’ll safeguard the curiosity of Somalia.’’;
Whereas Consultant Omar continued, ‘‘for so long as I’m within the U.S. Congress, Somalia won’t ever be at risk, its waters won’t be stolen by Ethiopia or others. Sleep in consolation realizing I’m right here to guard the pursuits of Somalia from contained in the U.S. system.’’;
Whereas George Washington warned in his Farewell Deal with of 1796 to ‘‘Guard in opposition to the impostures of pretended patriotism’’, and additional declared, ‘‘Residents, by delivery or alternative, of a typical nation, that nation has a proper to pay attention your affections. The identify of American, which belongs to you in your nationwide capability, should all the time exalt the simply delight of patriotism greater than any appellation derived from native discriminations’’;
Whereas these statements by Consultant Omar clearly violate the oath she took as an elected Member of Congress to defend and defend the US Structure;
Whereas Consultant Omar has exhibited the treasonous tendencies George Washington warned about, and her actions have to be condemned by all Members of Congress who adhere to the oath they took upon assuming workplace; and
Whereas by brazenly admitting her efforts to advance Somalia’s pursuits utilizing her place as a United States Consultant, Consultant Omar has revealed herself to be a international agent performing on behalf of a international authorities: Now, due to this fact, be it
Resolved, That—
(1) Consultant Ilhan Omar of Minnesota be censured;
(2) Consultant Ilhan Omar forthwith 5 current herself within the effectively of the Home of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure;
(3) Consultant Ilhan Omar be censured 8 with the general public studying of this decision by the Speaker; and
(4) Consultant Ilhan Omar be, and is here11 by, faraway from the Committee on the Price range and the Committee on Training and the Workforce.