Ilhan Omar won huge support after President Trump’s latest attack on her (Picture: Getty Images)

A Somali-born congresswoman ordered to leave the US by President Trump has won huge public support after a crowd at a campaign rally chanted ‘send her back’ yesterday.

Ilhan Omar is one of four congresswomen Trump said should ‘go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,’ sparking international outrage.

He then claimed she had a ‘history of launching vicious anti-Semitic screeds’ at the rally, causing the crowd of people to stand shouting.

Since then, Omar has received an outpouring of support on social media under the #IStandWithIlhan hashtag.


Hours after the president’s outburst, she responded on Twitter with a quote from late author and civil rights activist Maya Angelou.



She tweeted: ‘You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise.’

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise. -Maya Angelou https://t.co/46jcXSXF0B — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 18, 2019

Other public figures then began speaking out in praise of the congresswoman, with actress Mia Farrow stating that she was stunned.

She tweeted: ‘Last night’s Trump rally was an alarming new low – a grotesque,rabid horror-show.

‘While i don’t agree with all of their proposals, these four, smart young members of Congress love our country and have every right to speak out.‘

Democratic senator Bernie Saunders also lent his support.

#IStandWithIlhan and am proud to work with her in Congress. Trump is stoking the most despicable and disturbing currents in our society. And that very hatred and racism fuels him. We must fight together to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of our country. — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) July 18, 2019

He tweeted: ‘#IStandWithIlhan and am proud to work with her in Congress.

‘Trump is stoking the most despicable and disturbing currents in our society. And that very hatred and racism fuels him.

‘We must fight together to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of our country.’

On Wednesday afternoon, the hashtag was trending at number one on Twitter.

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