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From Fox News: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., argued that if there is a problem with mass illegal immigration, Republicans are the ones to blame.
As Democrats continue to reel from the November election loss to now-President Donald Trump, some have argued the party needs a fresh approach to the migrant crisis plaguing the southern border. Others, like AOC, have urged citizens to find ways to resist the president and ICE agents’ efforts to deport illegal immigrants.
National Public Radio host Steve Inskeep spoke to the congresswoman, who won office initially during Trump’s first term, about where she and her party stand now.
“To what extent is immigration, as an issue, part of your problem with working-class voters?” he asked.
“I guess my question would be, what does the word ‘problem’ mean?” Ocasio-Cortez replied.
“I think that we have a problem on immigration because of the lack of progress that we’ve had on this issue, and as we know, Republicans weaponize that lack of progress,” the Democrat socialist congresswoman claimed.
She claimed that Republicans don’t want to solve the problem of illegal immigration, and then revealed what she views as the real problem: “They are completely uninterested in addressing undocumented people, in addressing a path to citizenship.”
Inskeep reminded her that Republicans are addressing the “undocumented people” by deporting them.
AOC then condemned the Laken Riley Act, and claimed, “So they are actually creating… it’s not even about creating a deportation pipeline, they are creating a private prison camp pipeline, so they are still creating pipelines to just increase this problem here in the United States.”
“I think that a lack of a path to citizenship in the United States, the lack of addressing comprehensive immigration reform creates a large population of undocumented people in the United States and that is allowed to be weaponized in many ways,” AOC claimed, again admitting that she has no interest in stopping illegal immigration, but instead just giving them all a pathway to citizenship.
She also admitted a vast number of illegal aliens in the U.S. are visa overstays, and again claimed, “…it is the lack of ability for us to expand a path to citizenship, modernize paths to citizenship over decades that create this bubbling issue that Republicans are allowed to weaponize.”
WATCH:
NPR Host asks AOC how to deal with the immigration problem, and she responds by saying essentially ‘What problem?’:
Steve Inskeep: “To what extent an immigration as an issue part of your problem with working class voters?”
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez: “What does the word problem… pic.twitter.com/DTaFjeCVOQ— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) February 28, 2025
AOC asks NPR host to clarify the ‘problem’ when he asks about migrant crisis concerning voters https://t.co/C89I5T5Qth
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 1, 2025
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