Perhaps if she had to go back to Somalia, shed learn to appreciate America.

Thats the message coming from Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who suggested Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) might have a newfound love of the country that took her in if she could see her home country by comparison.

Paul prefaced his comments by noting hes not saying we forcibly send her anywhere, but a little perspective couldnt hurt for a woman who says America is a terrible country.

She has the honor of actually winning a seat in Congress and she says were a terrible country? he asked a Breitbart reporter. I think thats about as ungrateful as you can get.

Give her time, Senator. Give her time. She gets more and more ungrateful by the day.

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While Im not saying we forcibly send her anywhere, Im willing to contribute to buy her a ticket to go visit Somalia, Paul added. I think she can look and maybe learn a little bit about the disaster that is Somalia, that has no capitalism, has no God-given rights guaranteed in the Constitution, and has about seven different tribes that have been fighting each other for the last 40 years.

And then maybe after she visited Somalia for a while, she might come back and appreciate America more.

Echoing Trump

Pauls comments echo those of President Trump, who kicked off this controversy with a tame suggestion that Omar and other members of the so-called Squad Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)  should leave or go back if they hate America so much.

While the White House has contended that he meant they should solve problems in their own districts, many have interpreted it to be a shot at Omar.

Democrat Rep. James Clyburn explained Omars past when he suggested her life experience was worse than those of family members of Holocaust survivors.

She had to flee the country to escape violence and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before coming to the United States, he said.

So bad was her childhood that, as Paul intonates, youd think shed have a great appreciation for America. Au contraire

Omar Trashes America

In a recent op-ed published in the New York Times, Omar whined about allegedly experiencing prejudice in America since day one as a visibly Muslim woman.

The America we arrived in was different from the one my grandfather had hoped to find, she writes. The land of opportunity he imagined was in fact full of challenges.

In previous interviews, the congresswoman has blasted Americans, saying ignorance really is pervasive in many parts of this country.

She has mocked Americans fears of Al Qaeda and dismissed 9/11 as an event in which some people did something.

Paul lit into her

Im in a town where we have a lot of people who are refugees, who have come, some from Somalia, some from Bosnia, he told Breitbart. Ive never heard one of them say that America is a terrible place or be unappreciative of our country. Most of them are thankful.

Ive met people who have come here from behind the iron curtain, they got away from communism, Paul added. Theyre some of the best Americans we have because they really appreciate how great our country is.

And then I hear Representative Omar say, Oh, America is a terrible place. Id love there to be justice and theres no justice here. Its like, she came here and we fed her, we clothed her, she got welfare, she got school, she got healthcare.

Sounds terrible, Ms. Omar. If thats the case, Paul has an airplane ticket you might be interested in.