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On Sunday, Donald Trump told Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three other
women of color in Congress to "go back" to the countries they came from.
On Monday, Trump doubled down, telling these four U.S. citizens to leave
the country if they don't like it.

This is racism, plain and simple -- but news outlets like The New York
Times refuse to use the word "racism" to describe Trump's tweet. In this
era of rising white supremacy, we can't afford to paper over racism from
the president of the United States. Common Dreams will always have the
courage to call racism by its name, and we're counting on you to stand
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This fight started when Reps. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib,
Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar voted against legislation to fund
Trump's detention centers at the border with no requirements that
migrants be treated in a humane way. AOC and her colleagues had traveled
to the border and seen firsthand the cruel and unsanitary conditions
people were being held in. No clean clothes. Insufficient food. No soap,
diapers, or toothbrushes. Kids separated from their parents, forced to
sleep on cold floors with no blankets. Progressive lawmakers wanted to
ensure that any new funding would be used in a way that ended this
inhumanity. Instead, the House leadership went along with Sen. Mitch
McConnell's version of the bill -- $4.6 billion, with no strings
attached.

Now Trump tells these courageous progressive lawmakers -- all women of
color -- to "go back" to the countries they came from. It's just the
latest blatantly racist statement from a president who called African
nations "shithole countries," described Mexicans as "rapists and
murderers," and said there were "good people on both sides" of a Nazi
rally. At a time when an outright racist autocrat occupies the most
powerful office in the land, our relentless coverage and commentary is
more vital than ever. Common Dreams refuses to sugarcoat racism. We will
always call a lie a lie and racism what it is. Will you stand with us by
making a donation to Common Dreams today?

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Kimberly Monaghan

Board Chair

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