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Donald Trump aimed a controversial attack at “the Squad” on Sunday, saying the four progressive Democratic congresswomen who have clashed with their own party establishment should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”.

“You can’t leave fast enough,” he added.

Trump did not name his targets but the high-profile members of “the Squad” are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York; Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts; Rashida Tlaib of Michigan; and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

Only Omar, who is from Somalia, was not born in America. Pressley is African American, Tlaib was born to Palestinian immigrants and Ocasio-Cortez comes from a New York-Puerto Rican family.

Tlaib responded by saying Trump “needs to be impeached”.

Bernie Sanders was among those who called the attack racist.

“When I call the president a racist,” the Vermont senator wrote, “this is what I’m talking about.”

Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in a statement: “If Trump shouted the same thing at a Muslim woman wearing hijab in a Walmart, he might be arrested.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-ocasio-cortez