Border Czar Tom Homan clashed with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Friday saying the congresswoman might be “impeding” federal immigration officials’ efforts to arrest illegal migrants by offering them advice on how to avoid deportation.
On Wednesday, the office of the representative from New York’s 14th congressional district hosted a “Know Your Rights” webinar detailing tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials used to arrest illegal immigrants in an effort to help them avoid deportation. “ICE raids are political tactics, and they’re often intended to create fear,” Genia Blaser, a lawyer with the Immigrant Defense Project, claimed during the presentation streamed by the Bronx-Queens rep’s office.
“We see how ICE often uses rhetoric to criminalize immigrants, to normalize their tactics and justify what they’re doing,” she added, describing encounters between migrants and ICE as “often very aggressive.”
Homan told Fox News that Ocasio-Cortez “might be in trouble” for trying to circumvent federal immigration enforcement efforts. “I sent an email today to the deputy attorney general. At what level is that impediment? Is that impediment?” Homan asked. “Maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now,” he added, speculating that “Impediment is impediment, in my opinion.”
“I’m not a prosecutor, but we need some further guidance on that,” Homan said.
Ocasio-Cortez did not participate in the webinar given by her office during which Blaser shared that recent ICE arrests in New York have occurred “early in the morning” and in “public places.”
The representative from New York’s latest efforts to provide comfort to illegal migrants is aligned with other left-wing politicians. When President Donald Trump began implementing his mass deportation of criminal migrants last month, the mayors of Newark, Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles and Miami all independently came out against the administration’s efforts and publicly announced their intentions to support the illegal immigrant communities in their cities.
“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw,” Ocasio-Cortez posted on X in a mocking response to Homan’s comments, “The Constitution would be a good place to start.”
Homan responded to Ocasio-Cortez's flippant remarks saying, “Let’s pray that she is not ‘educating’ the next murderer of a young college nursing student on how to evade arrest by ICE. How many more young women have to be raped, murdered and burned alive until she wakes up?”
“I thought I educated her on this several years ago during congressional testimony,” Homan added, in reference to a viral argument the two had during President Donald Trump’s first term. “She can call it ‘advising those who are illegally in the US of their constitutional rights.’ But we all know it’s really about evading ICE and how not to get arrested and how not to adhere to a federal judge’s order to leave after receiving due process at great taxpayer expense,” Homan said.
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