Rep. Delia Ramirez is the latest congresswoman to draw flak from remarks that call her allegiance to the United States into question, an allegiance to which they had both pledged when they were sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Speaking before a Mexico City summit over the last weekend, the Illinois Democrat announced, “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.”
Ramirez is a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and the Department of Homeland Security retweeted her statement along with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt:
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