Posted on 01/08/2019 10:23:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used her appearance on MSNBC — following President Donald Trump’s Oval Office address on Tuesday night — to demand the president explain why ICE shouldn’t be abolished.
Ocasio-Cortez began, “No one should feel unsafe in the United States of America. And that includes our amazing and beautiful and productive immigrant community and moreover, the one thing the president has not talked about is the fact he has systematically engaged in the violation of international human rights borders — human rights on our border.”
During the president’s speech, he explained why he felt the border wall was essential to protect American citizens. Congressional Democratic leadership delivered a counter-speech immediately after Trump finished.
“He talked about what happened the day after Christmas on the day of Christmas, a child died in ICE custody. The president should not be asking for more money to an agency that has systematically violated human rights,” she continued. “The president should be really defending why we are funding such an agency at all because right now what we are seeing is death.”
The eight-year-old Guatemalan boy who passed away did so after receiving medical treatment for a cold and a fever.
Ocasio-Cortez added:
“Right now what we are seeing is the violation of human rights. These children and these families are being held in … basically freezing boxes that no person should be maintained in for any amount of time let alone the amount of time they are being kept on. And moreover, even if you’re anti-immigrant in this country, the majority of immigrant overstays, the majority of the reason people are undocumented is Visa overstay. It’s not because people are crossing a border.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez needs to explain why 2 + 2 = 4.
Sorry, that might be too difficult for her.
Figure it out for yourself, dumb ass. Does Trump have to explain everything to you?
Maybe you should pick up a copy of Congress for Dummies.
She just voted to fund ICE 4 days ago.
So many things need to be explained to AOC.
She may have been dropped on her head as a baby, she could have been addled by drug use, or it may be congenital - but there is such a yawning canyon of lack of understanding, that simply no amount of explaining may ever be able to fill.
What....really?
Go back to the shithole you slithered out of AOC and leave us Americans alone.
That whole jackass donkey face thing is no longer cute. Your comments are juvenile and irrelevant.
Are Liberals incapable of saying the word “ILLEGAL”?
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Nope. In their minds, Trump is illegally occupying the Whitehouse.
We, who are American Citizens are illegally in the way of the true owners of this country-everybody else.
American liberals are traitors. Wake me up when they are gone or the Vikings win a SuperBowl.
Hilarious
Yeah, I was thinking it has to be a joke, too.
Seems like I would have heard about that but I don’t catch everything on FR, LOL.
Perhaps ICE should be funded because it implements laws passed by Congress! Dear Dingbat, if you don’t like ICE, repeal the laws it implements.
LOL great - had no idea!!
AOC needs to explain how she got a degree from even the second rate college that she says she did because she certainly didn’t learn much there.
Ocrazio needs to explain to the nation why she supports shielding criminal illegals who rape murder attack, kill, violate 100’s of 1000’s of people- 100’s of 1000’s of innocent legal citizens who’s lives are forever scarred and damaged by people that are NOT supposed to be here!!! She needs to explain why she’s for open borders when illegal criminals are pouring into this country unimpeded!
Hey Corn Nut, you need to explain why you are relevant.
She is the special kid on the block....bless her heart
This girl doesn’t have a clue and doesn’t know where to go to buy one.
Like, I totally get the concern, why should we fund ICE when there is like global warming and all the ice will melt?
IT JUST DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.
I need a kale shake.
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