Reps. Carlos Gimenez, left, Delia Ramirez, right (Reuters; Getty)
"Only in America," said Gimenez, who is the only Cuban-born member of Congress.
While an immigrant himself, Gimenez said that when a fellow lawmaker "openly declares allegiance to a foreign nation" over the U.S., they lose the right to be in certain positions in the federal government.
"It is not only unacceptable, it is disqualifying for service on a committee tasked with securing our homeland," he said.
Gimenez also serves on the House Homeland Security Committee, chairing its maritime and transportation subcommittee.
Blowback continued online throughout the week, with actor James Woods quipping, "Well, okay then, Hasta La Vista."
Conservative commentator Matt Walsh added that Ramirez should be arrested.
Ramirez' office directed Fox News Digital to a statement on the blowback the Chicagoan received after her comments south of the border.
The statement said "Republican commentators" and the social media presence for the Department of Homeland Security wrongly attacked her for "showing pride in her multi-cultural, multi-ethnic heritage."
Ramirez said she is a U.S. citizen by birth and that the attacks over the past days were "a weak attempt to silence my dissent and invalidate my patriotic criticism of the nativist, White supremacist, authoritarians in government. It is the definition of hypocrisy that members of Congress, who betray their oath each day they enable Trump, are attacking me for celebrating my Guatemalan-American roots."
Ramirez added that "no one questions" her many colleagues who celebrate their Irish ancestry, or others of similar Caucasian descent.
"I am the daughter of immigrants and the daughter of America. I am both Chapina and American. I am from both Guatemala and Chicago, Illinois."
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