Ocasio-Cortez: ICE Doesn’t ‘Deserve a Dime’ of Funding
Jack Crowe
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The National Review•February 07, 2019
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) said Thursday that she would work to deprive the Department of Homeland Security of funding until the agency adopts more permissive immigration-enforcement policies.
“This is one of the most urgent moral issues and crises that we have in America right now,†Ocasio-Cortez said during a rally outside the Capitol building. “This is not a political issue. Children dying in detention centers should not be a partisan concern. It should be a universal concern for every American in the United States.
“We’re here to say that an agency like ICE, which repeatedly and systematically violates human rights, does not deserve a dime,†she added.
Invoking Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen’s claim that the agency does not have a policy of separating migrant children from their parents, Ocasio-Cortez argued that Nielsen is ignorant of the enforcement policies pursued by her subordinates.
“I will not give one dollar to a secretary who does not care about her life and does not care to investigate a child’s death,†she said to applause. “I will not give one dollar to black-box detention facilities that think that some people in this country are deserving of constitutional protections and others are not.â€
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