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Ocasio-Cortez says calling the migrant crisis a 'surge' is white supremacy, but she should have checked her tweets
Socialist firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) should have checked her own tweets before claiming that the use of the word "surge" is a white supremacist philosophy.
Ocasio-Cortez went off on the use of the term when referring to the migrant crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border during an Instagram Live ask-me-anything session on Tuesday.
The question was posted to the screen and read, "Why are you not addressing the border crisis and the kids in cages like you used to?"
"Are you for real?!" she replied emphatically.
Ocasio-Cortez has been criticized by many for appearing to be much more incensed about "kids in cages" at the border during the former Trump administration than the current administration under President Joe Biden.
"Well, first of all, just — gut check. Stop. Anyone who's using the term 'surge' around you, consciously, is trying to invoke a militaristic frame," she continued after blaming the migrant crisis on the prison system, trade inequalities, and global warming.
"And that's a problem, because this is not a surge, these are children," she added. "And they are not insurgents and we are not being invaded! Which, by the way, is a white supremacist idea philosophy. The idea that if an other is coming in the population that this is an invasion of who we are."
Ocasio-Cortez didn't explain why she was talking about the word "surge" when it wasn't in the original question, but nevertheless, she also didn't seem to think that using the same word would be problematic when she used it in reference to voters.
"The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples' lives. The only way we change is with a massive surge of *new* voters at the polls,' she tweeted in 2019 in reference to elections in the United Kingdom.
It was not immediately clear if Ocasio-Cortez was using the word in a "militaristic frame" when referring to new voters, or whether she was also guilty of applying "white supremacist idea philosophy."
Here's more about AOC's rambling answer to the migrant surge:
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Texas Democrat leaks new photos of children being held at packed migrant facility: 'We're feeling the brunt'
New photos have been released that show dozens of children who are packed into migrant facilities at the U.S. southern border. The eye-opening photos were shared by Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar from Texas, who said that the unaccompanied minors were detained by Border Patrol for "far longer" than the 72-hour legal time limit. After 72 hours, minors are supposed to be transferred to a Health and Human Services facility.
Cuellar appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday, where he revealed the packed conditions at migrant facilities. Minors are seen from wall-to-wall with no space for social distancing, and laying on the floor with mylar blankets.
The Democratic congressman said there are "groups of over a hundred individuals coming in into the Border Patrol custody" every single day. He said that it is "nearly impossible to reduce the numbers of people at the detention facilities" when there are hundreds of people illegally crossing over the U.S. border every day.
Cuellar said unaccompanied children are being moved into migrant facilities, but "at first the priority was given to young boys."
"For example, Carrizo Springs has young boys from 13 to 17," Cuellar told host Margaret Brennan. "San Diego is going to be now taking 500 of the young girls— or have taken that."
The Texas representative noted, "Out of the 5,000 plus that they have at the Rio Grande, about 65% are unaccompanied kids."
Cuellar said family units are being released into the U.S., which has caused a "burden" on the border communities. "The cities, the counties, the NGOs," he said. "We're feeling the brunt of what's happening with the family units."
Cuellar admitted that he gets more information about the current border crisis from Mexico than the Biden administration, and hasn't been in contact with Vice President Kamala Harris since November despite her being appointed to take the lead on the migrant surge.
NEW: While journalists' access to migrant facilities continue to be limited, @RepCuellar shares exclusive photos wi… https://t.co/9A1CG67Ykz— Face The Nation (@Face The Nation)1616943909.0
Last week, Cuellar shared photos taken inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary surge facility in Donna, Texas. Conditions inside the migrant facilities have been described as "grim," cage-like, and "akin to jails."
https://t.co/jjwutZ9Uty— Ian Miles Cheong (@Ian Miles Cheong)1616410741.0
Last week, 18 Republican senators went down to the border to examine the immigration crisis. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) claimed that they were blocked by officials from taking photos and videos of the conditions at the migrant facility in Donna, Texas. Cruz released a video of the confrontation with a woman who wouldn't let him record a video inside the migrant facility.
What about the 'kids in cages'? Ted Cruz SOUNDS OFF on the Left’s border crisis HYPOCRISY
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Thursday to explain how "rabid partisanship" is causing President Joe Biden and his administration to make the political decisions directly responsible for the "absolute crisis at the border" — and it's getting worse every day.
Cruz described how the Biden administration is caving to the "hard left" agenda that supports open borders and views U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan or Nazis. He listed the Trump-era policies Biden has overturned, including halting construction of the border wall, re-instituting the failed policy of "catch and release," and ending the "Remain in Mexico" policy — "a big foreign policy victory of the Trump administration."
Cruz then sounded off on the left's unbelievable hypocrisy concerning the "kids in cages" narrative, and the Biden administration's "laughable" excuse for not allowing journalists access to border facilities.
"For four years of the Trump presidency, Democrats and the media talked every day about kids in cages. What they ignored is that Barack Obama built the cages. You and I both went to those cages during the Obama administration," Cruz told Glenn. "They utterly ignored that. And now, Joe Biden is making the cages bigger, and they're more full. And I'll tell you, it's truly a catastrophe. You take a facility, like the Donna facility in South Texas. It has a capacity of 250 people ... it currently has nearly 4,000."
"So, there's a reason why the Biden administration is trying to hide it. I'm flying down to the border tonight, and I'm bringing 18 senators down to the border to see firsthand what's happening. But the Biden administration is refusing to allow press to join us," Cruz continued.
"They won't allow reporters in and, Glenn, their justification is laughable on its face. They say, the reason why they won't allow reporters in is because reporters might have COVID. So one cameraman, a cameraman, and they say, 'No, too big of a COVID risk. We can't let the guy with the camera in.' It's because they want to hide the absolute disaster," he added. "You want to talk about COVID-19? Glenn, I'll give you a stunning statistic. Of the illegal immigrants that are being released in Arlington, Texas, they are testing positive for COVID-19 at a rate seven times higher than the U.S. population."
Watch the video below to catch more of Glenn's conversation with Sen. Ted Cruz:
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