Joint Statement from Reps.Ocasio-Cortez,Omar,Pressley and Tlai

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) ^ | February 14,2019 | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)

[mdittmar]

February 14, 2019

Press Release

Joint Statement from Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib on the FY 2019 Government Funding Package

WASHINGTON —Today, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) issued a statement in response to the 2019 government funding package issued this morning:  

“In this country, our diversity is our greatest strength. Immigrants fuel our nation’s economy, enrich our nation’s culture, and enhance our social fabric.  Quite simply, we are a better nation because of our immigrants.”

“And yet, this Administration continues to threaten the dignity and humanity of our immigrant population. The Department of Homeland Security has separated thousands of children from their parents, denied asylum to those fleeing danger, and used taxpayers’ dollars as a slush fund to incite terror in immigrant communities. The efficacy of a government agency must be determined by assessing ‘outcomes.’ By any reasonable measure, Donald Trump’s weaponization of ICE and CBP has been a failure. The Department of Homeland Security does not deserve an increase in funding, and that is why we intend to vote no on this funding package.”

“The funding bill on the floor today does not address any of our concerns and instead, gives more money to these abusive agencies:

• This bill gives $14.9 billion to CBP, nearly $950 million above current funding levels.
• This bill gives $7.6 billion to ICE, an increase of more than $500 million.
• The bill provides $1.37 billion for 55 miles of a border wall.
• This bill includes funding for an 11% increase in detention beds—an average of more than 45,000 per day, providing ICE the ability to detain 5,000 additional people per day.

We want to be abundantly clear: this is not a rebuke of federal workers or those who depend on the services they provide, but a rejection of the hateful policies, priorities, and rhetoric of the Trump Administration.”

[Missouri gal]

Joseph Alcoff is the guy who may link these new radical congress critters back to Soros:
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/18/antifa-leader-violent-communist/

Alcoff is probably the guy seen in a video posted by Josh Bernstein of a group from Justice Foundation. He is violently anarchist, hates America, wants to kill all police, and belongs to a large variety of “liberal” groups including Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, an Smash Fascism.

[MarMema]

Nerd Snyder was quite fond of cultural diversity as I recall.

[major_gaff]

He was also one of the mob that beat two Marines in center city Philly late last year now being charged...
Here

[farming pharmer]

Nerd Snyder was quite fond of cultural diversity as I recall.

He's from Ann Arbor. Lot of lead in the drinking water out there.

[minnesota_bound]

They did not mention Americans at all.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

The things they say are true of our legal immigrants, not slugs sneaking over the borders which is what they are speaking of.

[Thank You Rush]

“”In this country, our diversity is our greatest strength. Immigrants fuel our nation’s economy, enrich our nation’s culture, and enhance our social fabric. Quite simply, we are a better nation because of our immigrants.””

Sure ‘nuff. If we didn’t know it before, we sure learned it after you all got elected to the House, didn’t we? We didn’t realize how lucky we are, did we? B A R F!!!!!

I dislike the use by them of the term “OUR” as I don’t consider any of those fools any part of “OUR” country! They show nothing but disrespect for the rest of us so why on earth do we have to listen to a lecture from them about how great diversity is?? Go pound sand, woman!

Who writes this crap for them?

[Thank You Rush]

AMEN....Just think there might be some men who are husbands among those critters. Come to think of it - if they were that dumb, let them suffer like the blue blazes of R*%^$^

[Thank You Rush]

Lots of very good comments tonight regarding this thread - all right on target....

[Thank You Rush]

Because it seems they all have the biggest mouths of anyone in the House of 435 members..Sounds illogical, doesn’t it but there it is - every day in our faces!

[Missouri gal]

You're right. I do hope the FBI is onto him and his colleagues. They are out to destroy America, and have said so. Mama Alcoff is a prof at Hunter College and is quite the radical herself.

[Fresh Wind]

MAVA (Make America Venezuela Again)