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Ocasio-Cortez on border wall announcement: President must ‘take responsibility,’ ‘reverse course’
The Hill ^ | 10/6/23 | Laurin Irwin

Posted on 10/05/2023 10:16:27 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) released a statement Thursday condemning the Biden administration’s decision to waive 26 federal laws, which will allow border wall construction to commence in Texas.

“The Biden administration was not required to expand construction of the border wall — and they certainly were not required to waive several environmental laws to expedite the building,” the congresswoman said in her statement. “The President needs to take responsibility for this decision and reverse the course.”

“A wall does nothing to deter people who are fleeing poverty and violence from coming to the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez said in her statement. “Walls only serve to push migrants into more remote areas, increasing their chances of death. It is a cruel policy.”

The New York congresswoman said the country needs to reevaluate the root of migration and how policy affects Latin America. She said the country has to “finally invest in meaningful immigration reform.”

Ocasio-Cortez has been an outspoken advocate for immigration reform, as New York City has seen a recent influx of migrants arriving in the city.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barbarians; bringpoverty; bringviolence
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Blame Mexico

They are allowing ingress of and to their country and violating their own laws of sovereignty, while also enabling transportation, housing and feeding so they can travel over 1,000 miles through their country.

They will arrest, prosecute and jail an American Marine for accidentally entering and attempting a u turn back to the United States , while allowing millions of aliens, who are illegally in their country, unimpared passage.

Mexico has a plan

They are not our friends...


21 posted on 10/06/2023 1:06:17 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: desertsolitaire

Thier supporters are cheering, how stupid they really are and to top it all off they think we are stupid.


22 posted on 10/06/2023 1:47:31 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

“Comprehensive immigration reform” is just a 3 word euphemism for ‘Open borders’.

No country ever survives open borders.


23 posted on 10/06/2023 2:07:46 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

And when you consider they’re all basically broke and desperate to survive here somehow. This is a recipe for disaster.


24 posted on 10/06/2023 2:11:52 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Vendome
They are not our friends...

Who ever said they were?

25 posted on 10/06/2023 2:14:50 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

This power to waive laws, I’ve never heard of it before.


26 posted on 10/06/2023 2:17:22 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: toddausauras

Reconquista...


27 posted on 10/06/2023 3:15:51 AM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦...................."Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency.)
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To: Pocketdoor

If he does build wall, then he should get credit for it.

I am glad there is going to be more wall put up, but it is the least effective of the methods to deter illegal immigration.

Setting the wrath and fury of the federal govt on any company caught hiring illegals will do more to deter illegal immigration than any wall.


28 posted on 10/06/2023 3:33:55 AM PDT by funwithfood
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To: Bullish

If all these invadew are so poor and destitute how do they manage to have full bellies and clean fairly new clothes? Why discard all their belongings as soon as they hit the north side of the Rio Grande!?


29 posted on 10/06/2023 4:02:55 AM PDT by shadeaud (God gave us the free will and intelligence to choose right from wrong. Use it or lose it!)
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To: funwithfood
If he does build wall, then he should get credit for it.

This is all a head fake. Welcome to FReeRepublic.

30 posted on 10/06/2023 4:05:14 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: toddausauras

She’s not all in on national suicide… She’s all in on national White American Replacement.

But shhh… Whitey ain’t allowed to know that… Or say it out loud…


31 posted on 10/06/2023 4:32:54 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: BlackbirdSST

If real wall is built, does it matter if it was a political “head fake”?

Not to me.

Its the results that matter, not the BS that may come with it.


32 posted on 10/06/2023 4:42:41 AM PDT by funwithfood
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To: TalBlack

Waiving laws is just a failure to “support and defend … and faithfully execute the laws.” Its just a solemn oath./sarcasm


33 posted on 10/06/2023 4:51:07 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: funwithfood
If real wall is built, does it matter if it was a political “head fake”?

No 'real wall' is going to be built by either ratpublicans or rats. These monies will be diverted to send to The Ukraine. Watch. pedoBiden told you a day or so ago that he found funds he could divert as a way around Congress, the next day he suddenly 'wants to build the wall'.

34 posted on 10/06/2023 5:06:59 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

A point everyone seems to be missing is congressional seats and electoral votes are apportioned based on population. NY, Ill, Cal and other blue cities are receiving more and more illegals.

They are complaining, but in the end, when illegals become eligible to vote, blue states are going to demand that they receive more electoral votes than less populated states. This is no random act. This has been well thought out by the left and is part of their playbook.

Folks, we need to keep our eyes on the big picture here. We are not thinking strategic.


35 posted on 10/06/2023 5:16:14 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (At this point, I would rather have the illegals here than the liberals.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Is she worried the voters will kick her in her seat ? LOL


36 posted on 10/06/2023 6:11:13 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Bullish

“…they’re all basically broke and desperate to survive”

Yep. Our do-gooders passed all these stupid laws (e.g., “right to shelter”) that work when you have a handful of invaders. They can feel smug about themselves for passing the law knowing they are real humanitarians.

But we are faced with Civilizational collapse with tens of millions of penniless invaders living here. Their stupid progressive, feel-good laws count for nothing in that scenario.


37 posted on 10/06/2023 6:13:12 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: funwithfood

Sign up again when the ENTIRE wall is finished.


38 posted on 10/06/2023 7:26:19 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (Semper Fidelis)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Yeah. Like the Pakistani hotel in downtown NY City currently housing thousands and thousands of people at a cost of $75 MILLION dollars of taxpayer funds. $75 million to this thug in the Middle Eastern nation that housed Osamma, and our guys had to infiltrate to nab and kill.


39 posted on 10/06/2023 7:29:42 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible speaks truth! Don't believe it, you do so at your own peril. You'd better be right!!)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

ROME had Legions on the Rhine to prevent being overrun by German invaders. When those Legions disappeared Rome was overrun and destroyed.

Where are OUR legions on the Rio Grande? The US is already overrun with illegals from all over the world.


40 posted on 10/06/2023 7:43:20 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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