House Democrats Object to Targeting Gang Members for Deportation, Alleging Racism

Dozens of House Democrats are now adopting “illegal alien gang members rights” as their latest “racial justice” cause.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , led a group of her House Democratic colleagues in a letter to federal immigration officials demanding an overhaul of immigration policies and objecting to gang members in the country illegally being targeted for deportation.

Ocasio-Cortez and 34 of her Democratic colleagues sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tae Johnson, calling on them to change immigration policies that rely on the US’s “discriminatory legal system.”

Among the other signatories included “Squad” reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Jamaal Bowman.

The letter complains that ICE’s immigration policies don’t adequately protect the liberties of “asylums seekers” (a term increasingly used as a synonym for “illegal immigrants”), and claims that the “definition of an aggregated felony” is a “relic of the racist War on Drugs,” and thus it would be racist to deport an illegal convicted of one.

“‘Aggravated felonies’ as a category have been designed to ensure that people have as few rights as possible to fight detention and deportation,” Ocasio-Cortez and her colleagues wrote.

The lawmakers also claimed the memo “invites racial profiling” by making a migrant who has been convicted of actively or intentionally participating in gang activity a “public safety enforcement and removal priority.”

AOC and company then claimed the determination of one’s gang-involvement could be influenced by “racist” factors. Latinos are highly overrepresented in immigration enforcement (making up 21.5% of ICE agents and half of border patrol agents), and most illegal aliens today are Latino. Does AOC think those employed in immigration enforcement are racist against themselves?

The letter concludes by attempting to link deporting violent gang members to “racist policing,” adding “We are in a moment of racial reckoning in this country, with communities across the country calling for an end to mass incarceration and racist policing. It is time to end the carceral approach to immigration, which relies on these same flawed systems.”

This provides yet more evidence of the left’s increasing insanity – insanity that gets results, such as recent successes in convincing cities around the country to defund their police departments in the name of “racial justice” – only for that to result in record increases in violent crime.

Matt Palumbo is the author of Dumb and Dumber: How Cuomo and de Blasio Ruined New York, Debunk This: Shattering Liberal Lies, and Spygate

How can anyone actually think there can be any benefit to letting known criminals stay in this country? I guess she thinks since they cant get into her gated community it's ok...

What do these people think will happen once police no longer exist and criminal gangs rule thecities?

She's one of those screaming defund the police but I wonder who she will call if some crack head does break into her condo? The drug dealer down the street?

Liberals always say that's a ridiculous question, but it's a very realistic one. Just who do they think will come to their rescue once police are defunded and no longer exist?

Who will show up when they have a wreck on I-95? The neighborhood drug dealer?

Who will show up wondering if tonight is the night he gets shot when some crackhead breaks into their condo? The thug they let out of prison on a murder charge?

Who will show up when they call 9-1-1 because someone is having a heart attack? The local gang leader?

These people are totally insane. Of course I'm betting they all live in gated communities where they don't have to worry aboout typical street crime, you can't get anywhere near their place of residence because you can't get past the electronic gate and armed guards.

Perfect example is mad maxine waters. She lives in one of the most exclusive gated communities in LA. Several miles away from the worst ghetto in the US, which is exactly the district she represents, and has not improved ONE IOTA since the day she was first elected...but she is now a multimillionaire and lives in a $4 million mansion in a gated community...so she never has to actually see the slum she represents, except to beg them for votes yet again. Probably only does that by TV these days...

Same for most of these slugs. according to another article not long ago, AOC is spending large dollars on armed security, while screaming gun control and defund police.

I'm not sure even pelosi pisses me off as much as this twit does...

This is what we have now sleazing around DC pretending to represent her district...this is a congress person???

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