US Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told constituents today President Donald Trump enjoyed hearing a crowd at his rally call for a US congresswoman to return to the country where she was born.
The Democratic legislator spoke in New York for the first time since Trump again criticised her and three other minority Democratic congresswomen on Friday for saying what he called "horrible things" about the US He suggested they leave, though all are US citizens.
"We're going to stay right here, that's where we're going to go," Ocasio-Cortez shared her response to Trump's suggestion that American citizens "go back" with constituents at a Queens town hall on immigration issues. "We're not going anywhere."
Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a naturalised US citizen, came from civil war-torn Somalia as a child refugee. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ocasio-Cortez were born in the United States.
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