Kirsters Baish’s Opinion| Self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York made headlines yet again this week after comparing United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) holding centers to “concentration camps” like the ones used in Nazi Germany.
“Warning: The Trump admin is expected to begin ICE raids across the country TOMORROW, targeting people for round up,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a post that linked to a tweet by Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), a Texas immigration legal services provider, that listed several major cities where ICE raids were expected to start. “NOW is the time for us to come together: – Check in w/ your neighbors – Share “Know Your Rights” info – If you see ICE, report to @UNITEDWEDREAM 1-844-363-1423.”
Warning: The Trump admin is expected to begin ICE raids across the country TOMORROW, targeting people for round up.
NOW is the time for us to come together:
– Check in w/ your neighbors
– Share “Know Your Rights” info
– If you see ICE, report to @UNITEDWEDREAM 1-844-363-1423 https://t.co/UgWK0Km3sl— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 22, 2019
The New York Democrat posted a follow-up tweet with a link to a United We Dream post which was chalked full of advice for illegal aliens.
🚨 WE HAVE TO PROTECT IMMIGRANTS!! 🚨 SHARE widely, our community needs to know what are our rights. #HereToStay
Translated in 11 languages: English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Korean, Marathi, Vietnamese, and Tagalog. pic.twitter.com/dwnej1gu9H
— United We Dream (@UNITEDWEDREAM) June 21, 2019
According to the Daily Caller, “United We Dream is a Soros-funded immigrant advocacy group whose current executive director, Greisa Martinez Rosas, said in 2017 that ‘white supremacist politicians’ have ‘one goal,’ to ‘push all people of color in jails, and into detention camps, off the voter rolls and out of our country.'”
Please share this info widely & make sure your neighbors have it.
If your home can be a safe space or haven for others, let your neighbors and community know – even if it’s just to relax in the stress of this time.
Plan, prepare, + protect our neighbors.https://t.co/IXow1nTO4s
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 22, 2019
The Democrats seem to have launched a full-scale attack on ICE.
Fox News reports:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., along with a slew of other House Democrats, responded on Saturday to President Trump’s announced Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids by calling for the agency’s abolition and opposing supplemental funding for both it and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The emergency border supplemental bill would provide $1.2 billion to CBP and $128 million to ICE — two of the primary and most controversial entities responsible for immigration enforcement. Part of that controversy arose after politicians heavily criticized conditions on the southern border. Ocasio-Cortez specifically compared them to “concentration camps.”
Those agencies, a group of progressive congresswomen argued, didn’t deserve funding due to how they treated families and children.
ICE & CBP – radicalized, criminal agencies – are destroying families & killing innocent children. It is absolutely unconscionable to even consider giving one more dollar to support agencies that openly commit human rights abuses. #NotOneDollar #DefundHate pic.twitter.com/VixcmzF3NZ
— Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (@RepPressley) June 22, 2019
Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley released a statement that read, “These radicalized, criminal agencies are destroying families and killing innocent children.”
“It is absolutely unconscionable to even consider giving one more dollar to support this President’s deportation force that openly commits human rights abuses and refuses to be held accountable to the American people,” the Democrats continued.
According to Fox, “the group also reiterated some Democrats’ claim that ICE should be abolished and called for ‘an immigration system that reflects our values and respects the dignity and humanity of all.'”
