Good morning to you. Welcome to news4 midday, im jummy olabanji. Im eun yang. This is our first time working together on the set and im happy youre part of the family. Welcome, welcome. We want to star with reaction after President Donald Trump took aim at a group of progressive congresswomen ove e weekend, each a woman of color. En the presidtold the u. S. Congresswomen to, quote, go back home and fix their country. Here is reactiono to the tweea that many calling racist. Reporter a firestorm of reactions continuing today to a series of tweets from President Trump, targeting a group of democratic congresswomen. The president saying they should go back to the broken and crimeinfested places from which they came. Thats a racist tweet. Telling people to go back where they came from . Reporter all but one were born in the u. S. Its really aad state of affairs when the president of the United States is going to use race in a way that divides the ignorant about who all these people are. Rep
Berkeley. Reporter hundreds of people are here at berkeleys Civic Center Park for a city sponsored rally. Were city leaders are telling their own personal immigration stories. I think about the fact that that couldve happened to my family, if they were a younger me. Reporter her voice, shaking, berkeley city auditor jenny wong addressed the crowd gathered just the on the steps of city hall. We couldve been rounded up and placed in detention centers. Reporter wong says she, her parents, and her two sisters came to the United States illegally from taiwan when she was only six years old. Her family became legal citizens in 1986 thanks to Ronald Reagans amnesty law. That is what i experienced as a child. A government that showed compassion for immigrants. And, now, we dont have that compassion. If ice comes into our community, we will protest, we will fight for the rights of our immigrant brothers and sisters here in our community. Reporter todays rally was originally planned to demand mor
Moments when the president s remarks on race have gotten so far out there that virtually everybody who pays any attention at all has got to hear it. But it also may have served to unite the sometimes fractured democrats on capitol hill. President trump doubling down on attacks he made against Democratic Congress women. He wrote, they should go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Though he did not name them, the targets were alexandria ocasiocortez, rashida tlib, and ilhan omar. Amid virtual silence from republicans on the hill, democratic lawmakers slamming the president ial rhetoric. The president is an illegitimate racist occupying the white house. Yes, he attacked these four women of color who are members of congress who have been elected from their districts to come to the congress of the United States and represent the people in their districts. They are certainly legitimate. He is not. Reporter they have repeatedly called out the p
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