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Cortez wipes away tears at protest to defund US border agency: ‘They don't deserve a dime’
The Independent via Yahoo ^ | 2/07/19 | Andrew Buncombe

Posted on 02/08/2019 1:29:12 AM PST by Libloather

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was seen wiping tears from her face after using the death of a seven-year-old migrant child to demand an end to funding for the nation’s border agency.

At the event on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, the New York congresswoman said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did “not deserve a dime”, until it showed it cared about human rights.

“Not only will we not agree to fund [ICE], but we are here to say that an agency like ICE, which repeatedly and systematically violates human rights, does not deserve a dime,” she said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; anotheraocthread; border; cortez; ice; makeitstop; ocasiocortez; rentfree; rentfreeonfr; socialist
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To: Fai Mao

She needs to be held accountable for such statements. It is severely disrespectful to those that put themselves in danger serving this country.

They are not “violating human rights”. Having dying children put in their laps doesn’t mean they’ve done a thing wrong. If you actually visit the centers where they’re held they’re some of the most equipped places you can find - light years ahead of what would be found in Mexico (recreation, medical, etc.). Of course she’s riding the message of the media.

This woman needs public shaming.


41 posted on 02/08/2019 6:02:10 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Libloather

Time to send this barmaid back to Puerto Rico. She can fix up that joint.


42 posted on 02/08/2019 6:46:33 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Celtic Conservative

AOC= America Off Course.

CC


Unfortunately, this is rapidly becoming, “America Of Course.”..


43 posted on 02/08/2019 6:59:18 AM PST by AFret.
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To: AFret.

Nitwit GONE WILD!!!


44 posted on 02/08/2019 7:13:07 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: papertyger

Precedent?

Why is a precedent required? What difference does it make?

She is what she is.


45 posted on 02/08/2019 8:38:21 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: Libloather

Would she prefer that a citizen militia take up station on the border and deal with the invaders?


46 posted on 02/08/2019 9:09:54 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: unread
"Five will get you ten this evil bitch carries an onion in her purse."

...???...

Instant tears.

47 posted on 02/08/2019 9:12:20 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: bert
Why is a precedent required? What difference does it make?

It's the difference between a reasoned opinion, and wishful thinking.

48 posted on 02/08/2019 10:48:33 AM PST by papertyger
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To: neverevergiveup

Exactly.

Where are her tears for the babies that have sentenced to death by her party because they are inconvenient?


49 posted on 02/08/2019 5:30:48 PM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: Libloather
Pure blather with no action.

Where is your amendment for the appropriations bill, sweetheart? That's how things are done.

Deeds matter, not tears and words.


...WHILE I'M SITTIN' IN COMMITTEE...
Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) is currently serving her sixteenth term in Congress, representing parts of Westchester and Rockland Counties. She was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1988 and served in the Democratic Leadership in 2001 and 2002 as the first woman and the first New Yorker to chair the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She is the first woman to serve as Chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, and the first woman to lead either party on the Committee.

Amending Appropriations Bills - A Basic Guide presented by the Committee on Rules
Is Nita not letting you play with the toys?

“Sit still for a minute and learn the job...” Whoopi Goldberg

50 posted on 02/08/2019 6:33:58 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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