Rep. Delia Ramirez’s Remarks Underscore How Unchecked Mass Migration Discourages Assimilation
August 14, 2025
Pawel Styrna
Senior Researcher
If you ask the cheerleaders of unchecked mass migration, the U.S. could easily absorb millions – or even hundreds of millions – more foreigners, all with different languages, values, and lifestyles, and still somehow remain itself. Smooth assimilation is simply taken for granted. And yet reality so often undermines the rosy narrative of mass immigration enthusiasts. One recent example is a serving member of Congress declaring, at a foreign venue and in a foreign language, that “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.”
The speaker in question was Representative Delia Ramirez of Illinois, addressing the left-wing Panamerican Congress, held in Mexico City from August 1 to 3. The ideology driving the event was explicitly anti-U.S. and anti-capitalist. Other delegates to the congress included her fellow “Squad” congressmembers Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, as well as Representative Jesus (Chuy) Garcia of Illinois. In addition to placing her Guatemalan identity over her American citizenship, Ramirez indulged in bashing American foreign policy, uttering high-sounding platitudes about “justice” and “equality” on a global scale, and pushing so-called “migratory reform” in the spirit of “human rights” (translation: amnesty and open borders).
The Illinois Congresswoman’s “proud Guatemalan” first remarks caused a firestorm on social media. For instance, former presidential candidate and son of legal immigrants, Vivek Ramaswamy, responded that “
f your primary allegiance is to a different nation, then you shouldn’t be allowed to make laws that bind Americans.”
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/08/14/illinois-rep-delia-ramirez-guatemala
