Matt Walsh to Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL): “You're an anchor baby. You became an American thanks to a paperwork loophole.”
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From the August 13, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Representative Delia Ramirez from Illinois was in the news recently for, as we talk about this show, standing in front of a group of Hispanics in Mexico City and declaring that she is a proud Guatemalan before she's an American. Indeed, she's so proud of Guatemala that her family fled the country, settled here illegally, and have refused to return. They'd rather break the law in this country than live in Guatemala. That's how proud of Guatemala they are. That's the inherent contradiction, of course, anytime an immigrant claims to be so deeply proud of the homeland that they desperately don't want to live in. But the greater problem, of course, is that Congresswoman Ramirez has announced that she is more loyal to a foreign country than to her own. Granted, her loyalty to Guatemala seems rather uninspiring and conditional. She's loyal from a distance, but her loyalty to United States is clearly even weaker. She puts it second place to the country that her family have spent decades trying to avoid going back to.
Now it should be uncontroversial to say that any elected representative who declares a greater loyalty to a foreign country than to his own country should be removed from office at an absolute minimum. In Ramirez's case, it's obvious that she and her entire family should be deported. If she loves Guatemala so much, she can live there. The fact that Delia Ramirez wasn't on a boat back to Guatemala five minutes after she made those remarks is a disgrace. In fact, we didn't have to put her on a boat — she said all that in Mexico City. All we had to do was lock the door and not let her back in. That's what she deserves. This woman is a disloyal, backstabbing, ungrateful Judas who never should have been granted citizenship in the first place. And there's no time like the present to rectify that mistake, especially after her most recent comments. Because, yes, Ms. Ramirez is at it again. And this time, it was the Netroots Nation conference in New Orleans. During a sit down discussion on stage at the conference, Ramirez was asked a very simple question. It's a question that everybody running for elected office should be asked. It's a question that every immigrant should be asked before we even think about granting them citizenship. It is the question, I think. It's the new what is a woman. And that question is, what is an American. And just as the left never figured out how to define the word woman and still don't know how to, they have just as much trouble, if not more, stringing together an even vaguely coherent definition for the word American.
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WALSH: So Representative Ramirez says that being an American means that we can dream and love and also that we recognize all the evils of colonialism and all the bad stuff that America did in the past. That's her answer. And there are a lot of problems here.
First of all, Ramirez, what is this we stuff? You're an anchor baby. You became an American thanks to a paperwork loophole. You have no ancestral ties to this country. You don't love it. You don't respect it. You don't even like it. You've made no effort to assimilate into our culture. In fact, you hate our culture and our people. Your family showed up here illegally. Their very first act as residents, illegal residents of this country, was to break our laws and violate our sovereignty. You and your family are squatters. I mean, using the word we is like if a junkie broke into your house while you were on vacation, refused to leave, and then started referring to it as our home.