Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to get rid of the entire Department of Homeland Security, in case you wondering if the freshmen rep was as ridiculous as you thought she might be. But you know, it’s not like all that radical and stuff to remove an agency that protects this country from people who destroy and kill us all.
It’s really not that radical.
When DHS was 1st formed by Bush 17 years ago, many members of Congress were concerned – incl GOP – that we were setting up a ticking time bomb for civil liberties erosion & abuse of power.
Discussing reorganization shouldn’t be out of the question. https://t.co/dLckI4UYIL
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 11, 2019
Reorganization.
Riiiiiiiight.
Notice how she leaves out why DHS was founded by Bush two years after the largest terror attack on American soil EVER.
132 members – incl GOP & Independents – voted against creating the Dept of Homeland Security.
Don’t let people rewrite history as if DHS/ICE always existed, or is a no-brainer. It’s a young agency, ill-conceived after 9/11 & sacrificed our civil liberties – like the Patriot Act.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 11, 2019
Man, Democrats really, really, really, really want to do away with protections along our borders.
Wonder why that is?
And oh look, she retweeted Justin Amash to prove her point.
Conservatives used to want to abolish DHS—as well as many other departments and agencies that bloat government. If only today’s members of Congress cared as much about defending the Constitution as they do about defending ICE, an agency that’s existed only since 2003.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) July 18, 2018
First Brian Stelter tweets about Amash like he’s some great hero for leaving the Republican Party and now AOC is retweeting him.
Oh, wait, he sent his tweet to her to back her up.
How very disappointing.
But that was a minority. You know how congress works right? And if you recall, it was created because some people did something on 9/11.
— Stop The Nonsense (@IronJJT) July 11, 2019
Does the stress of promising so much without a method of application ever make you think that it could be hurting people? What are you going to do when you have broken the old system but don't actually have a new one to put in place?
— Discrimination (@Discrim15144218) July 11, 2019
She’s whining about being put on too many committees and doing her job, we can’t expect her to actually come up with real ideas.
Did you actually say rewrite history? You attempt the same.
— Kelly Shaw (@steelers88us) July 11, 2019
Wasn’t DHS created in response to 9/11 to get all law enforcement agencies under one roof so terrorists/criminals could be tracked and one effectively system?
— David Phillips (@DavidPh32074764) July 11, 2019
You are ill-conceived and a no-brainer tbh
— ATX-MART (@ATX_fight_club) July 11, 2019
Oof.
Oh the humanity pic.twitter.com/uilGHPnPOt
— The Chronicles of Maintenance Man (@ChroniclesOfMM) July 11, 2019
And curtain.
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