Emmer to Somali immigrants who don't assimilate: "Go the hell back"
June 26, 2026
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as posted by the channelRep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), the third-ranking House Republican, said Somali immigrants should either assimilate or "go the hell back to where they came from."
"Sometimes Minnesotans are so afraid that you're going to call us a racist, you're going to call us an Islamophobe, you're going to call us some name that we just don't want to get into that fight. You know what, I would argue that I never did care, but I'm done being careful, even the least bit careful," he said Thursday at a Faith and Freedom Coalition town hall on Capitol Hill.
"I don't really care where you come from, but if you come to this great country, you have to understand you're coming here to be an American. I don't care — Italian, Polish, you know, Somali. Okay? But they don't assimilate, and if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who was born in Somalia, responded: "I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from."
Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) also called the remarks "racist."
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