Seattle congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has many things she’d rather be doing than responding to President Donald Trump. But when he tweeted that four “progressive” Democratic congresswomen should “go back” to their places of origin, Jayapal, who was born in India, wasn’t going to travel a quiet, cautious route.
“There are just times when it’s personal,” said Jayapal, who immigrated to the United States at age 16 to attend Georgetown University.
Although Trump’s tweet took particular aim at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota (three of whom were actually born in the United States, all four of whom are women of color), the president’s racist, anti-immigrant language hit Jayapal, too.
