Posted on 01/26/2020 9:43:07 AM PST by jazusamo
Former Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom Homan said Sunday that U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made “dangerous” and “idiotic” statements regarding ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at a campaign rally for 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Iowa.
“She's disgusting,” Homan said on “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Sunday morning, reacting to Ocasio-Cortez’s comments the night before.
On Saturday, with Sanders, I-Vt., tied up in Washington at President Trump's Senate impeachment trial, Ocasio-Cortez addressed his supporters in Ames, Iowa, calling for the abolition of ICE and CBP.
The New York Democrat also urged Sanders' supporters to start "tipping people off" if they see federal immigration authorities taking action against illegal immigrants in their communities.
“Organizing is about tipping people off if you start to see that ICE and CBP are in communities to try and keep people safe,” Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said in Iowa on Saturday.
“I'm to not here to reform some of these systems when we talk about immigration. I'm here because Sen. Sanders has actually committed to breaking up ICE and CBP. That's why I'm here.”
“I’m disgusted,” Homan said reacting to her statements. “She says you want to tip off the community to keep the community safe, that's what ICE is doing.”
Homan then brought up statistics from 2018, pointing out that most of the illegal immigrants ICE agents arrested last year had criminal histories, which include homicide, rape or assault.
According to the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Report for fiscal year 2018, 138,117 aliens with criminal histories, which include convicted criminal and pending criminal charges, were arrested.
“ICE Is keeping the community safe,” Homan said. “She [Ocasio-Cortez] stands up on stage -- first of all, it's an incredibly stupid statement she made, which doesn't surprise me,...
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May they end up together
AOC is a lost cause.
I like Homan. Straight talker with no BS.
Per the article, she said: "I'm here because Sen. Sanders has actually committed to breaking up ICE and CBP. That's why I'm here."
So do I, he speaks his mind and has common sense.
It’s a shame we don’t have many people like him in leadership positions in government but politicians won’t allow it.
The beautiful thing that is in a very short time in which everybody now has an iPhone and will get much more of the news than they used to
Whereas the idiotic remarks that the kid from New York said at some private gathering would have just stayed there previously now the whole world can hear them in the ice director himself can respond in public to the nonsensical view of protecting illegals and criminals
This is where Democrats will end up drawing the line on their own party if they are to survive
You cannot take the other side of the law
You may argue different sides of the law; but you cannot not take the other side of the law ! that is what’s called criminal.
The Democratic Party is going to have to realize it cannot be against the law
We will know the tide is actually turn when some of these Democrat crooks get prosecuted and go to jail for their crimes that everybody knows about and that are public knowledge
Just sayin.
For those of us here that Have seen the Clinton skate for the better of two decades, the time is up
We’re done with Democrats skating , and accusing Republicans of their crimes. Done
I agree. I hope the tide is turning and starts to crash down on them.
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