‘That’s not what you said’

The anchor baby congresswoman who put America second while abroad opted against damage control and instead poured gasoline on the fire with a false equivalency.

The unrepentant globalist push for open borders hasn’t merely been devastating communities across the country; it has also been impacting the halls of government. This included the 3rd Congressional District of Illinois and Rep. Delia Ramirez (D), who followed up being a “proud Guatemalan before” being an American by slamming “the nativist, white supremacist, authoritarians in government.”

Following comments made in Mexico City, Mexico, over the weekend, Ramirez, who was born in Chicago, Illinois, to illegal aliens and is married to a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient, took to X not to amend her statement, but rather to issue a nonspecific follow-up about immigrants’ “claim on this country.”

Declaring herself “both Chapina and American” using a Spanish term for Guatemalan, the second-term “Squad” member captioned her official statement, “Honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens my commitment to America. That is the truth I carry with me always. And it is a truth that many Americans carry with them.”

“Anyone who denies our claim on this country simply because we dare to honor our diverse heritage and immigrant roots only exposes who fragile and small-minded their own idea of America really is,” she went on.

Honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens my commitment to America. That is the truth I carry with me always. And it is a truth that many Americans carry with them.

Anyone who denies our claim on this country simply because we dare to honor our diverse heritage and… pic.twitter.com/RWI7oboMcg

— Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez (@repdeliaramirez) August 5, 2025

As had been reported, while speaking in Spanish alongside other leftist lawmakers, like Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar, Ramirez declared, “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.”

Pushback, including calls for her expulsion from Congress for suggesting a violation of her oath of office, found the Illinois lawmaker contending in her statement, “… today’s attacks are a weak attempt to silence my dissent and invalidate my patriotic criticism of the nativist, white supremacist, authoritarians in government.”

Ramirez further argued, “No one questions when my white colleagues identify as Irish-American, Italian-American, or Ukrainian-American to honor their ancestry,” without differentiating between an acknowledgment of heritage and what many considered to be a declaration of allegiance.

In fact, House Homeland Security Committee member Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) raised that exact issue when he called for Ramirez to not only be kicked off the committee, but to be removed from the country as well.

Sharing the congresswoman’s remarks, he posted to X, “Denaturalize, deport, and kick her off the Homeland Committee. We know where her allegiances lie.”

Denaturalize, deport, and kick her off Homeland Committee. We know where her allegiances lie. https://t.co/57gIDPvAeU

— Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) August 4, 2025

Similar concerns had previously been voiced over  Maine state Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D) and fellow Somali-born lawmaker Omar, with the former drawing the attention of the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year when she asked, “How can you help us be a better country and build back what we used to have a long time ago? So hopefully, we will be able to help our country, our former country, Somalia.”

Meanwhile, Omar’s own past remarks found her booted from the House Foreign Affairs Committee in February 2023, namely for alleged antisemitism.

As for Ramirez, her doubling down was met with the same from detractors who rightfully saw no place for those with a foreign allegiance to be representing the people of the United States in Congress.

How can anyone trust your oath that you took that you bear true faith and allegiance to the US constitution?@NRCC

— DK (@toottootchoo) August 5, 2025

You have divided loyalties.

— Tybernicus (@Tybernicus17) August 5, 2025

That’s not what you said. You said your loyalty was to Guatemala first. As a sitting member of Congress, how do you reconcile that?

My family immigrated from Mexico legally. We are American first and always. Proud to be so. My allegiance is to the USA.

La verdad es que si no…

— Patty Free (@pattymaese8) August 5, 2025

You’re pledging allegiance to another country over the one you represent!!!!! We see you!!!!!

— Sherry Putnam (@Putnam10Putnam) August 5, 2025

@DHSgov she’s doubling down.

— Hookah S. Caterpillar (@Mandi_8675309) August 5, 2025

You are literally on camera saying you’re Guatemalan first, American second. You’re an absolute liar and are free to resign and go back to your true home at any time.

— Nathan Carson (@ndcarson) August 5, 2025

U.S. citizenship must be reserved for those who are loyal to the U.S. alone. Throw her out of Congress.

— Monica Showalter (@mmshowalter1) August 5, 2025

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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