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Ilhan Omar: “Our laws do not allow for us to strike people because they…”

Featuring: Ilhan Omar, Democratic | U.S. House Minnesota, District 5

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'Full of Shit': Ilhan Omar Dismisses Republican Attacks of the Left After Kirk Killing

Published | Video Starts at 03:02

And, and, and that is because one, as we've learned in the New York Times, the, the self defense argument doesn't hold up. We know that they were turning that boat around. We know that Our laws do not allow for us to strike people because they are designated as a terrorist. We also know our laws do not allow us to strike people without any sort of justification. And so they don't really have any grounds to stand when it comes to the actions that they took against the Venezuelans on the Caribbean. (03:02–03:14)

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Asserts that U.S. laws prohibit strikes solely based on terrorist designation.

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