97 Ways Of Saying The Same Hateful Thing: 'Get Out Of America'

“Go back to your country” and “Get out of my country.” That’s what white men in Kansas and Washington state told Indian and Sikh men in recent weeks before shooting them ― it’s as if they were speaking from the same script.

Here are 97 times in the past two years that people hurled this kind of get-out-of-America hate, often with explicit language, at minorities ― whether it was yelled from car windows, spray-painted on buildings or written in threatening emails ― to make them feel lesser and like they don’t belong here. 

These quotes were collected, in part, using data from ProPublica’s Documenting Hate Project. If you’ve been a victim or a witness of hate, tell us your story.

“Get out of America!” and “Arab, you need to leave, asshole!”

― March 8, 2017, in Salem, Oregon

“Go back to Mexico.” 

― March 4, 2017, in Lansing, Michigan

“Go back to your country.” 

― March 3, 2017, in Kent, Washington. 

“Fucking Mexican. ... Go back to your country.”

― March 1, 2017, in Brooklyn, New York 

 “Get out of my country.” 

― Feb. 22, 2017, in Olathe, Kansas

“Go back to where you came from.” 

― Dec. 31, 2016, in Las Vegas

“Go back to Africa.” 

― Dec. 28, 2016, in Kodiak, Alaska

“You fucking immigrant piece of shit. You Muslim. Go back to your country.”

― Dec. 11, 2016, in Bronx, New York

“Go back to Africa.” 

― Dec. 6, 2016, in Moonachie, New Jersey

“Go back to your own country.” 

― Dec. 5, 2016, in New York

“I will cut your throat — go back to your country.”

― Dec. 3, 2016, in Brooklyn, New York

“You can go back where you came from.”

― Nov. 31, 2016, in Cedar Falls, Iowa

“Go back to your country.” 

― Nov. 26, 2016, in San Diego

“You Muslims would be wise to pack your bags and get out of Dodge.” 

― Nov. 24, 2016, in San Jose, California

“You’re a terrorist. Get out of here.” 

― Nov. 23, 2016, in Albuquerque, New Mexico

“You don’t even — from here, you mothafucka. Fucking loser. Fuck you and your family, you terrorist motherfucker ... You’re an Arab. You’re a fucking loser. Sand nigger ... Trump is president, asshole, so you can kiss your fuckin’ visa goodbye, scumbag. We’ll deport you soon, don’t worry, you fuckin’ terrorist.”

― Nov. 17, 2016, in Queens, New York

“Go home.” 

― Nov. 17, 2106, in West Springfield, Massachusetts

“Go back to your country.” 

― Nov. 16, 2016, in Philadelphia

“Fucking Muslims, go back to where you fucking came from, you’re so ugly.”

― Nov. 15, 2016, in New York

“Hijab-wearing bitch. This is our nation. Get the fuck out.”

― Nov. 14, 2016, in Fremont, California

“Cunt, you don’t belong in this country. Go back to your fucking country.”

― Nov. 11, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio

“You can all go home now.” 

― Nov. 11, 2016, in Iowa City, Iowa

“Trump might deport you ... I think you’re an ugly, evil little pig who might get deported and I pray that you do.”

― Nov. 11, 2016, in San Francisco

“Let me see your papers. Get out of my country and go back to Mexico.” 

― Nov. 10, 2016, in Cambridge, Massachusetts

“ISIS is calling! Muslims can leave!” 

― Nov. 10, 2016, in New Paltz, New York

“Go back to your country.” 

― Nov. 9, 2016, in Cambridge, Massachusetts

“You wetbacks need to go back to Mexico.” 

― Nov. 9, 2016, in Salt Lake City

“Go back to Mexico.” 

― Nov. 9, 2016, in North Bend, Oregon

“#GoBackToAfrica ... Make America Great Again.”

― Nov. 9, 2016, in Maple Grove, Minnesota

“Go back to Mexico where you belong.” 

― Nov. 9, 2016, in Plano, Texas

“Have you started packing?” and “Go back to Mexico” and “Yeah, keep on packing” and “We’re more American than you.”

― Nov. 9, 2016, in Woodland, California

“Go back to Africa” and “Go back to Mexico.” 

― Nov. 8, 2016, in Edwardsville, Illinois

“Go back where you came from.” 

― November 2016 in Denver

“Go back to Mexico” and “Go back to Africa” and “Sorry, you have to go back.”

― November 2016 in Spokane, Washington

“Go back to Africa.” 

― November 2016 in Poughkeepsie, New York

“Go back to the jungle.” 

― November 2016 in Englewood, Colorado

“Go back to Mexico. You don’t belong here.” 

― November 2016 in Sonoma, California

“Go back to Mexico.” 

― Oct. 31, 2016, in Albuquerque, New Mexico

“Go home” and “Go back to your country.” 

― Oct. 20, 2016, in Fort Smith, Arkansas

“Terrorist, leave, No one wants you here.”

― Oct. 14, 2016, in Dundalk, Maryland

“Go back to China ... go back to your fucking country.”

― Oct. 9, 2016, in New York

“Go back to your country.” 

― Sept. 22, 2016, in Lakewood, New Jersey

“Go back to Africa.” 

― Sept. 22, 2016, in Norman, Oklahoma

“MUSLIMS GET OUT.” 

― Sept. 19, 2016, in Lonsdale, Minnesota

”Get the fuck out of America, bitches. This is America — you shouldn’t be different from us.”

― Sept. 8, 2016, in Brooklyn, New York

“Go back to China.” 

― September 2016 in Orange County, California

“You should take your black ass back to Africa so this campus and America can be great again.”

― August 2016 in Bowling Green, Kentucky

“Foreiger (sic) go home” and “Go Home Indian” and “I will kill you.”

― July 24, 2016, in Pahrump, Nevada

“I wish that you were not in the United States, and you don’t deserve to be here, either.”

- July 24, 2016, in San Francisco

“You Muslims need to go back to where you came from.”

― July 2, 2016, in Fort Pierce, Florida

“ISIS motherfucker. Get out of my country.”

― July 2016 in Omaha, Nebraska

“Go back to your country.” 

― June 22, 2016, in Waterbury, Connecticut

“Get the hell out of the country you bitchass Muslims!”

― June 22, 2016, in Germantown, Maryland

“American’s don’t want you here and when President Trump gets into office, your (sic) going home!!! Back to the (expletive) dry sand and the desert.”

― June 17, 2016, in Plainfield, Indiana

“Muslim trash go home!” 

― June 16, 2016, in Boston

“You are Muslim and not welcome ... Go away killers ... America hates Terrorist (sic) like you!”

― June 15, 2016, in Tucson, Arizona

“You white bitch. You don’t belong here. Go back to your people.” 

― June 14, 2016, in New York

“Go back home and take [your] bombs with you.”

― June 13, 2016, in Queens, New York

“Take your rag ass back to your country. I’m gonna fucking kill you.”

― June 9, 2016, in Richardson, Texas

“Go back to your country, wetback.” 

― June 2, 2016, in San Jose, California

“Leave now before it is too late ... I tell every sand nigger that I see to leave ... American’s don’t want you here and when President Trump gets into office, your going home!!!”

― June 2016 in Plainfield, Indiana

“Go back to your country or we will blow your ass up.” 

― May 25, 2016, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

“I don’t want [those two Muslim women] near my country.”

― May 23, 2016, in Orange County, California

“Fucking Mexican. Go back to Mexico.” 

― May 15, 2016, in Tulsa, Oklahoma

“Go the fuck back to where you came from.”

― April 30, 2016, in Marshfield, Wisconsin

“Go back to Africa.”

― April 21, 2016, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

“Go back to Mexico.” 

― April 7, 2016, in Elkhorn, Wisconsin

“Go back to Mexico.” 

― March 21, 2016, in Oakhurst, California

“If you call yourself an African-American, go back to Africa. If you’re an African first, go back to Africa.”

― March 12, 2016, in Cleveland

“Go to Auschwitz. Go to fucking Auschwitz.”

― March 12, 2016, in Cleveland

“You want to live in this country, you better leave ... brown trash ... Trump! Trump! Trump! ... Trump will take our country from you guys!”

― March 12, 2016, in Wichita, Kansas

“Go back to China. Go back to China. Go back to China.” 

― March 2016 in Lexington, Kentucky

“Go back where you came from.” 

― Feb. 9, 2016, in College Station, Texas

“Stay in your desserts [sic] and follow your religion in your own countries. ... Go back to your own country; America needs to get rid of people like you.”

― Early 2016 in Elmwood Park, New Jersey

“Go back to your country.” 

― Jan. 28, 2016, in Edina, Minnesota

“Terrorist, go back to where you came from!”

― January 2016 in Tucson, Arizona

“Go back to your country. Fuck you.” 

― Dec. 20, 2015, in Brooklyn, New York

“Mother fucking tacos! Go back to Mexico! Go back to Mexico! Nobody wants you!”

― Dec. 16, 2015, in Phoenix

“Go back to your country.” 

― Dec. 11, 2015, in Lancaster, New York

“GO BACK TO MEXICO NOW.” 

― Dec. 8, 2015, in Pittsburgh

 “Go home.” 

― Dec. 1, 2015, in Bismarck, North Dakota

“Go back to your country.” 

― December 2015 in Clifton, New Jersey

“Go back home, you terrorist.” 

― Nov. 17, 2016, in New York

“Get out of my country. Go back to where you came from.” 

― Nov. 14, 2015, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

“Yeah, go back where you came from.” 

― Nov. 10, 2015, in Milwaukee

“Go back to your country.” 

― November 2015 in Queens, New York

“FUCK THE KURAN. FUCK MUSLIMS ... TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT ... Get out of my country, yes my MUTHA FUCKIN COUNTRY”

― November 2015 in Hudson County, New Jersey 

“Go back to Mexico.” 

― Oct. 10, 2015, in Spokane Valley, Washington

“Learn English or go back to Mexico.” 

― Oct. 7, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa

“Terrorist, go back to your country.” 

― October 2015 in Columbus, Ohio

“Go back to Mexico.” 

― Sept. 14, 2015, in Dallas

“Go back to your country.” 

― Sept. 10, 2015, in Sterling Heights, Michigan

“Terrorist!” and “Bin Laden!” and “Go back to your country.” 

― Sept. 8, 2015, in Darien, Illinois

“You Muslim scum, go back to your country.” 

― September 2015 in Austin, Texas

“Go back to Mexico.” 

― Aug. 27, 2015, in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

“Get out of my country.” 

― Aug. 25, 2015, in Dubuque, Iowa

“You guys need to get out of this country” and “go back to where you belong. ... Go back to your country. ... We don’t like you, especially your kind.”

― July 26, 2015, in Lewiston, Maine

“Go back where you came from.” 

― July 4, 2015, in Houston, Texas

This story was reported using data from ProPublica’s Documenting Hate Project. This project is collecting reports to create a national database of hate crimes and bias incidents for use by journalists and civil-rights organizations. If you’ve been a victim or a witness, tell us your story.