‘I Don’t Want To Hear’ It!: AOC Calls Out Utter ‘Audacity’ Of GOP’s Immigration Talk
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) made a not-so-subtle jab at Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Thursday following his “illegal” immigrant ask during a House oversight committee hearing.
“The Republican majority is anti-legal immigration in the United States, I want to make that very clear,” Ocasio-Cortez stressed.
Burchett, while questioning blue state governors testifying on “sanctuary” immigration policies, asked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz if he found a “difference” between an “immigrant and an illegal immigrant.”
Minutes later, Ocasio-Cortez closed her remarks in the hearing by addressing talk of “illegal vs. legal immigration” and focusing on the Trump administration’s aggressive stance on the issue.
“They are trying to end legal status in the United States,” she declared before noting that the administration has stripped immigrants from several countries of their temporary protected status to live and work in the United States.
″[They’re] making people undocumented by removing legal status, ending legal status, and then having the audacity to call them ‘illegal’ when they were here documented,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker chimed in by turning to the administration’s push to take students’ visas away from them, adding that it’s a means to strip people of their legal right to live in the U.S., even though those people may have been granted the ability to stay here “years earlier.”
Ocasio-Cortez jumped back in: “So I don’t want to hear about how this is about illegal vs. legal immigration, they are attacking legal status and removing legal status.”
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