The Squad: who are the four women targeted in Trump’s ‘racist’ tweets?

The US president said the congresswomen should return to ‘crime infested places from which they came’

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From left: Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib
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The four US congresswomen told to “go back” where they came from by Donald Trump have hit back, as critics accuse the president of wanting to “make America white again”.

Trump’s tweets on Sunday have been widely interpreted as an attack on four first-term Democratic congresswomen – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar – who have referred to themselves as the Squad.

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