| Here is a tweet from soon after Biden took office in January 2021: > People must understand the depth of what’s happening here: the President of the United States has ordered a halt to deportations. ICE, a federal agency, is refusing to comply. > There’s no reforming this rogue dept. It’s time for a new, just vision. https://x.com/AOC/status/1354211627940384768 A month later she was criticizing DHS for still having Patriot act powers, and lumped ICE with the same criticism: > People have been writing about the deeply concerning issues with the structure of DHS for a long time. > This is from 3 years before I was even elected. > It’s not “fringe” to ask why FEMA & ICE are in the same Dept operation. Or question ICE’s operations https://x.com/AOC/status/1364619004921413633 A day earlier she called for the abolition of ICE: > It’s only 2 mos into this admin & our fraught, unjust immigration system will not transform in that time. > That’s why bold reimagination is so impt. > DHS shouldn’t exist, agencies should be reorganized, ICE gotta go, ban for-profit detention, create climate refugee status & more. This one is very apt given OP. https://x.com/AOC/status/1364349732760518657 She continued, this on is in April 2021: > A lot of people who are just now suddenly horrified at the dehumanizing conditions at our border are the same folks who dehumanize immigrants + helped build these cages in the 1st place. > When we tried to stop this infrastructure over a year ago,we were overruled by BOTH parties. > Fact is a lot of the politicians crying right now don’t work to solve either. > They vote to grow ICE + CBP cages and they do everything to avoid addressing the root: US foreign policy and interventionism that destabilizes regions, the climate crisis, and unjust economic policy. https://x.com/AOC/status/1377652851191787532 Your statement that Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez stopped protesting these private prisons while Biden was in office is simply factually wrong. And it was not hard to check it. |