Posted on 10/04/2022 1:49:44 PM PDT by grundle
The political pleasantries didn’t last long.
Immediately after appearing together in public for the first time Friday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., took aim at Mayor Adams’ plan to erect a migrant tent camp in her district, charging that there’s a “better solution” to be had.
The progressive congresswoman, who’s had a simmering beef with the more moderate-minded mayor for months, offered the rebuke in a brief interview with the Daily News on the steps of City Hall following a press conference with Adams on an unrelated topic.
“I think we can get to a place with a better solution here,” Ocasio-Cortez said when asked about the tent facilities being built in the Bronx’s Orchard Beach parking lot to house upward of 1,000 Latin American migrants.
Ocasio-Cortez said she also ”very much“ sides with ”the sentiment” of Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, who raised a number of concerns about the Orchard Beach site earlier this week, including poor transit access and susceptibility to flooding.
Ocasio-Cortez, who hasn’t previously commented on the tent facility in her 14th Congressional District, said she’s in talks with other lawmakers about “figuring out if there are additional federal resources” that could be allocated to help the city house migrants.
“So that people can get into a better situation,” she said.
Adams spokesman Fabien Levy defended the tent plans when asked for a response to Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks.
“No location is perfect, but we are confident in this decision,” he said. “And we’re glad that so many local elected officials recognize we’re in an emergency and are willing to work with us towards a successful rollout.”
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Sadly she has completely forgotten about Puerto Rico and that half the Island is still without power and that many are homeless there and Joe has not “fixed” everything there yet.
Could paint the tents rainbow colors.
AOC needs to be appointed Czarina of PR and the whole thing spun off to Venezuela.
“Ok, move the tents right up next to AOC’s condo”
Now they want to put the tent city on Randall’s Island which happens to be the location of NYC’s massive sewage treatment plant. Most of the island smells like sewage depending on the wind direction.
Is she going to stage a fake cry in her own district?
Hey, AOC isn’t all bad.
She has some nice sweater puppies.
Just sayin
5.56mm
We tried Marthas Vineyard but you all said F NO !!!!!
She welcomed them in, let her live with them.
Spoiled brat Alexandria Occasional-Cortex gets schooled on Immigration Law by ICE Director Thomas Homan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRrc8m1INVE
Yeah, the final solution, right AOC?
Not in my district is the better solution….
I imagine Sandy the Spanish Fly Cortez wants to send the poor “refugees” to the Mexican “border towns” like Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
I think they misspelled Riker’s....
I’ll bet, that better place involves lots of federal money.
Ruh Roh.
She might actually have to figure out a real world solution.
Likely all for show, with a wink and a nod to Adams, to appease her constituents.
I wonder if AOC eventually plans to run for mayor. And don’t doubt for a second that she can win.
Miss Donkey Kong is such an ass.
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