Ramirez arouses indignation with the pride Guatemalan of American commentary

Democratic representative Delia Ramirez of Illinois was widely criticized on social networks this week about a clip where she said that her pride as a Guatemalan is approached her pride of being American.

“I am a proud Guatemalan before being American,” Ramirez said In Spanish at the second annual pan-American congress in Mexico during the weekend.

The commentary attracted indignation on social networks, including many conservatives, suggesting that the allegiance of the deputy is moved.

“Are you comfortable with that?” GOP SEN. Mike Lee from Utah Posted on X.

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Representative Delia Ramirez attended a press conference at the American Capitol on December 5, 2024. (Cell Gunes / Anadolu via Getty Images)

“Well, okay,” actor James Woods Posted on X. “Hasta La Vista …”

“Imagine saying that by serving at the American Congress,” said GOP Claudia Tenney of New York Gop Posted on X. “The Democratic Party no longer even pretends to put America first. Embarrassing.”

“Anyone who values any other country in America does not belong to the Congress”, the conservative commentator Charlie Kirk Posted on X. “Period.”

“The anger against Ramirez does not concern the way it defines itself, but on what it is to be an American,” said Jonathan Turley, contributor to Fox News on X. “It is a shared identity, an article of faith that defines us all.”

The comment attracted the attention of the Ministry of Internal Security, which published a quote from former President Theodore Roosevelt on his page.

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The representative Delia Ramirez speaks at a press conference with immigration experts, DACA recipients and dreamers. (Getty Images)

“There is no place in this country for lying down … Amerinism is a question of the Spirit and the Soul”, the Post says. “Our allegiance must be purely in the United States. We must condemn without subject to any man who holds any other allegiance.”

“Shocking to hear a member of the Congress openly indicate his loyalty to another country”, the candidate of the republican governor of Ohio Vivek Ramaswamy Posted on X. “If your main allegiance is a different nation, then you should not be allowed to make laws that bind Americans. It is not controversial, it is obvious.”

“She should be arrested, denaturalized and deported,” said conservative commentator Matt Walsh Posted on X. “It should not even be controversial to say it. This is obviously what should happen in cases like this.”

Ramirez, who sits on the Committee on the House of Internal Security, also accused the United States of prioritizing “imperialism, militarization, conquest, control, competition in its attempt at domination”.

On his website, Ramirez, the child of immigrant parents, said that her husband was in the illegally And that she is the only legislative in the congress “in a mixed marriage, and fights for the rights of dreamers like her husband, Boris, and for a complete reform of immigration”.

Ramirez defended his comments in a statement published by his office.

Activists gather in support of the delayed action program for children arrivals (DACA) at the American Capitol on June 15, 2022. (AP photo / J. Scott Applewhite, file)

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“Honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens my commitment to America,” the statement said. “This is the truth that I always wear with me. And it is a truth that many Americans take with them.”

“Whoever denies our assertion on this country simply because we dare to honor our diversified heritage and our roots of immigrants only exposes how fragile and weak his own idea is.”

Louis Casiano of Fox News Digital contributed to this report