Democratic lawmakers traveled to Mexico City this weekend to attend an anti-American summit, and several of the lawmakers made derogatory remarks about the United States.
Illinois Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez made one of the most provocative remarks when she declared, “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.”
Ramirez, whose parents immigrated from Guatemala, represents parts of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. She went on to criticize the United States as being “addicted to war” and driven by “imperialism, militarization, conquest, control, and competition in its pursuit of dominance.”
According to her official website, Ramirez’s husband is living in the U.S. without legal status, and she identifies as the only member of Congress in a “mixed-status marriage.”
