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

[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.

[fuzzylogic]

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.

[FlingWingFlyer]

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

[AFret.]

AOC= America Off Course.

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

[hal ogen]

Nitwit GONE WILD!!!

[bert]

Precedent?

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

She is what she is.

[JimRed]

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

[JimRed]

"Five will get you ten this evil bitch carries an onion in her purse."

...???...

Instant tears.

[papertyger]

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

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

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Exactly.

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

[philman_36]

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.

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