Mary Rooke Commentary and Analysis Writer
A Democratic U.S. congresswoman recently stood on the international stage and declared she identifies more with a foreign country than America.
As of Tuesday early afternoon, not a single member of her party has come out to denounce her treasonous speech.
While at a summit in Mexico City, Democratic Illinois Rep. Delia Ramirez tells the audience while speaking in Spanish: “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.”
For conservative Americans, it’s been evident for a while that even though Democrats claim to want to protect our big D “Democracy” against insurrection and treason they don’t really care about that. It’s just a way to knock President Donald Trump’s supporters for the events Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
The country was dragged through four years of Democrats pontificating about the supposed insurrection of Trump and his supporters, and how that fateful day was a historical attack on our country’s sovereignty. We went through political hearings, show trials, and violent attacks on citizens’ constitutional rights, all for the sake of scoring political points and jabs against Republicans. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)
At the end of the charade, and emphasized by Ramirez’s comments, it is clear that when Democrats claim to be fighting against traitors, what they really mean is traitors to their regime, not the country. Some may argue that what Ramirez said in Mexico City is protected under her First Amendment rights. However, when you take her comments about Guatemala in conjunction with her actions against stopping illegal immigration into the U.S., one could argue that she is violating Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, which defines treason in part as someone who gives aid and comfort to our nation’s enemies.
She has publicly called to defund ICE and other border enforcement agencies. She has put forth several bills to protect illegal immigrants from deportation and give them access to legal help to aid in their breaking of U.S. immigration laws. Her work is not to promote the safety and well-being of U.S. citizens; it’s to aid the foreign invasion at our borders.
This would be shocking enough on its own. Having a sitting U.S. House member telling a foreign audience that her allegiance is divided and that she doesn’t view America as her home would have been unheard of just 15 years ago.
However, when you consider her background and how she became a U.S. citizen, it adds to the shock value of the situation. Her mother was pregnant with her when she illegally entered the U.S. before Ramirez was born in Chicago. Ramirez has also boasted about her husband being an illegal immigrant who was granted DACA status because he was 14 years old when he came to the U.S.
The situation sparks a deeper conversation in the national discussion about who or what is an American?
Rep. Delia Ramirez, who said she is more proud to be Guatemalan than American during a junket to Mexico, took *5* sponsored junkets last year to Guatemala (twice), Panama, Colombia, Honduras.
Soros’s Open Society sponsored one trip pic.twitter.com/8jUXfKEYBC
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) August 5, 2025
The lack of a common answer to this question is currently disintegrating our American society. The answer you receive will likely depend on which party you are aligned with. Ramirez and other Democrats believe that if you are born here, that automatically gives you a claim to an American identity, even if you boast about being a proud Guatemalan. (ROOKE: Far-Left Group Meeting Goes Viral But No One’s Talking About Underlying Hatred For Kids)
But those of us who have been here for several generations understand that being an American is so much more than where we were born. It comes from the knowledge of what it took to tame a violent wilderness into a functioning country and fight off world powers to own it and keep it for ourselves. We could never imagine saying that our genealogical connection to a foreign country comes before our pride as Americans, because we are not ignorant of the blood and sweat that was paid to form this nation.
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.”
– Theodore Roosevelt https://t.co/Jki0zCAiHG
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) August 4, 2025
Democrats claim to want to protect this country for its citizens, but can hardly find the words to describe what makes anyone a citizen besides birthplace. And they certainly aren’t condemning Ramirez for telling a foreign audience that Guatemalan pride comes before the country she claims to be serving in its best interest. On her first day in office, she swore an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the same, which implies the U.S.
Her comments, at the very least, constituted misconduct of the highest order, and if we lived in a country that could answer “what is an American?” she would be expelled from her elected position.
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