Ilhan Omar: "I sincerely believe", Fox News host Tucker Carlson is "a racist idiot"

representative Ilhan OmarIlhan Omar Ilhan Omar: "I sincerely believe", Fox News host Tucker Carlson is "a racist idiot". Tucker Carlson: Omar, living proof: "US immigration laws are" dangerous "MORE (D-Min.) Doubled Wednesday by calling Fox News host Tucker CarlsonTucker CarlsonPress: Trump Trump's Endangered Homelessness describes homelessness in cities as a "phenomenon that began two years ago" Trump says he would leave a "strong intelligence" in Afghanistan MORE a "racist imbecile" in response to her comments on her Tuesday about her.

"I really believe he's a racist idiot," Omar told reporters as she was leaving a Democratic caucus meeting on Wednesday morning.

Omar went on to say that Carlson "was crying over the fact that we had an African-born congressman, the kind of people who, he thinks, come from a makeshift country," referring to President TrumpDonald John TrumpS & P 500 Passes the 3000-Place Bar For The First Time A dispute between Seoul and Tokyo makes Kim Jong Un's victory even more precious at the DMZ: the Chamber of Commerce hires a former member of the Giuliani campaign, Cruz MOREpublished 2018 comments referring to some African countries.

"The fact that he does not have the possibility to forbid me to leave this country and that he must now call me a congressman, it pisses me off," she added.

Omar, who arrived in the United States as a Somali refugee, first described Carlson as "crazy fool" in a tweet published Tuesday night following comments by the Fox News host at his subject in his show.

Carlson said Tuesday that the congressman was the "living proof" that US immigration laws were "dangerous".

About her success story, Omar, who had gone from refugee to "one of the most powerful women in America" ​​at age 36, accused the legislator of not being "grateful" to the country.

"After all that the United States has done for Omar and his family, she hates this country more than ever," he said.

"Omar is not disappointed in the United States, it makes him furious.All of his public statements blame Americans for fanaticism and racism," he said. "That should worry you, not just because Omar is now a Congressman in session. Ilhan Omar is living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous for this country. "

"Maybe it's our fault if we ask our immigrants too little, we do not have enough confidence in them to assimilate them, so they do not feel completely American. that the problem is deeper than that, "he added. "Maybe we are importing people whose values ​​are simply antithetical, who knows what the problem is, but there is a problem."

Omar, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, has sharply criticized Trump and the Republicans during his tenure. She also stirred tensions within her own party with controversial comments about Israel that led to accusations of anti-Semitism.

Carlson ended his segment by telling viewers to be "grateful to Ilhan Omar, as boring as she is".

"She is a living fire alarm, a warning to all of us, we had better change our immigration system immediately," he said. "Or else."

Omar replied in a tweet Tuesday night saying that "lies" would not "break my love for this country".

"I'm not going to lie, it's kind of fun to watch a racist idiot like this one crying over my congressional presence," she wrote. "No lie will reduce my love for this country or my determination to make our union more perfect."

"They will just have to get used to calling me parliamentarian!" she added.

Carlson will tackle the subject at the Wednesday night show, according to the network.

Carlson previously referred to Omar as "a symbol of the failure of the US immigration system" and has faced many criticism from the left for his speeches on immigrants.

-Cristina Marcos contributed to this report, which was updated at 11:42.