After spending two weeks calling detention centers along the southern border ‘concentration camps’ and making an absolute fool of herself during an actual border visit where she was caught stretching the truth (aka lying), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came up with a thread of policy approaches.
And yeah …
A thread of some of the policy approaches we should consider wrt immigration:
1. Foreign policy: Reinstate US humanitarian aid in the Northern Triangle, where people are fleeing. US should start acting like a real partner in Latin America,& increase visas where we intervene.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 3, 2019
So AOC wants to talk policy NOW? Yeah, ok. NOT.
Notice how her first idea out of the gate is spending American tax dollars in foreign countries. Would someone remind her we have Americans going without in this country who could use that help and support first?
Just sayin’.
2. Climate change: There is broad consensus from military to activists that resource strains (droughts, famine, etc) & nat disasters are drivers of refugees.
People are fleeing places that were once livable &are no longer. It will get worse the longer we do nothing #GreenNewDeal
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 3, 2019
Climate change.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
3. Border policy: As @JulianCastro mentioned in the #DemDebate, it’s time to repeal Section 1325 & 1326, the statutes this admin is using to mindlessly throw people in cages.
We have to take these proceedings out of criminal code & into civil code. Torture accomplishes nothing.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 3, 2019
It’s a crime to enter this country illegally.
Sorry, not sorry.
4. Econ: We need large-scale public investment to spur job creation for citizens&immigrants alike. Ideally that investment transitions us to a sustainable economy (climate & income-wise). We are overdue to rebuild American infra&it’s going to take ALL of us & immigrants to do it.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 3, 2019
Climate.
Again.
She’s truly a one trick pony.
Notice she and other Democrats continue to deliberately conflate legal and illegal immigrants …
Let's care for our own citizens, homless and vets first. Democrats have so neglected them that they sit in their own excrement among rats and are at risk from Typhus and TB in California.
— Keith Barrett (@KeithBarrett) July 3, 2019
All. Day. That. ^
Next time can you make suggestions without trying to convince half the country that everyone on the other side is a fascist? This is what politicians should be doing.. suggesting alternatives.. not what you did to lead up to this! Keep this up and I might respect you again.
— Herald of VATI (@ofVATI) July 3, 2019
You’re a congresswoman aren’t you supposed to be working with the republicans to solve these problems? Not yell or constantly call republicans names.
— Era (@theeraxo) July 3, 2019
So we need to invest in the world so people stay in their country of origin? When are these countries responsible for their own citizens? When does it stop? That’s what the World Bank is for. Why are we so invested in the UN?
— Raymond Ready (@RReady96) July 4, 2019
Right?! Why is it America’s responsibility to take care of other countries?
What happened to the 15.000 + New Yorkers you represent? It seems to me that you are not doing anything for them.
— Julian (@NietzscheUsa10) July 3, 2019
She seems to have forgotten she is supposed to work for her district.
Perhaps when they vote her out next year she’ll remember then.
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