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Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America

Published December 18, 2025 | Video Starts at 06:58

No one ever said that because it's never been true and likely never will be true. The Somalis who live in the United States came here as refugees. Refugees. So the assumption is if there's a problem in the world, the United States has a moral obligation. No one ever clarifies where this obligation comes from, but it's pre existing. (06:58–07:03)

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Asserts that Somalis in the U.S. arrived as refugees.

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“Ilhan Omar... got here on visa fraud because she married her brother.”
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“Plus, she's an illegal alien.”
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“Somalis... probably the worst of any immigrant group in the United States.”
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“There are about, we think, 260,000 Somalis in the United States.”
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“The United States has a moral obligation [to bring refugees to the U.S. after intervening in foreign conflicts].”
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“At the tail end of every American intervention around the world, we import... refugees from the country in whose internal affairs we are…”
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“Somalia's not a huge country, so we only have hundreds of thousands [of Somali refugees].”
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“When they got here... they were given way more free stuff than any American citizen receives.”
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“Our healthcare system, our hospitals... totally destroyed by this last wave of immigration.”
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“The United States has lost the self-confidence necessary to import and assimilate people.”
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“Ilhan Omar is openly disloyal to the nation, Our nation. That Our ancestors built in the United States Congress.”
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“The United States is based on a universalist principle. It is famously a country built on ideas.”
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“And the only way to get there is through violence.”
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“The point is to bring the poorest, least educated people in the world to the United States immediately.”
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