{"id":358026,"date":"2021-03-31T09:45:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=358026"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:45:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:45:53","slug":"aoc-referring-to-surge-of-illegal-immigration-is-militaristic-a-white-supremacist-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-referring-to-surge-of-illegal-immigration-is-militaristic-a-white-supremacist-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC: Referring To \u2018Surge\u2019 Of Illegal Immigration Is \u2018Militaristic,\u2019 \u2018A White Supremacist Idea\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-referring-to-surge-of-illegal-immigration-is-militaristic-a-white-supremacist-idea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=358026&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4707.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) asserted that referring to the immigration crisis as a \u201csurge\u201d is rooted in white supremacist philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez commented on the ongoing crisis at the border Tuesday on Instagram. Ocasio-Cortez came under public pressure in recent days to sound off on the issue under the Biden administration after being an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Democrat avoided explicitly blaming the Biden administration for the crisis, instead asserting that climate change, imperialism, and trade created it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople don\u2019t want to have that conversation,\u201d she said, referring to the issues she raised. She went on to claim anyone who refers to a \u201csurge\u201d of illegal migrants is trying to distract from other issues and is using white supremacist talking points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to say, \u2018What about the surge?\u2019 Well, first of all, gut check. Stop. Anyone who\u2019s using the term \u2018surge\u2019 around you consciously is trying to invoke a militaristic frame and that\u2019s a problem because this is not a surge,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said. \u201cThese are children 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 like an invasion of who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez passed over blaming President Joe Biden for the surge in illegal immigration since he won the election in November. Instead, she pointed to issues such as climate change, in contrast to the illegal migrants themselves who have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-illegal-immigrant-came-to-us-basically-because-biden-was-elected-definitely-wouldnt-do-this-under-trump\">cited<\/a> Biden as a primary reason for their attempt at entering the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let\u2019s talk about this because so much of our national conversation, which is not a conversation, about immigration is driven by people who could not care less about immigrants. So often people want to say, \u2018Why aren\u2019t you talking about the border crisis?\u2019 or \u2018Why are you talking about it in this way?\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aoc-sounds-off-on-border-crisis-gives-biden-a-pass-blames-imperialism-climate-trade\">Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, we\u2019re talking about it. They just don\u2019t like how we\u2019re talking about it because it\u2019s not a border crisis, it\u2019s an imperialism crisis. It\u2019s a climate crisis. It\u2019s a trade crisis. And also, it\u2019s a carceral crisis because as I have already said even during this term and this president, our immigration system is based and designed on our carceral system,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Sen.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/where-is-aoc-sen-lindsey-graham-calls-out-aoc-being-mia-on-biden-border-crisis\">Lindsey Graham<\/a>&nbsp;(R-SC) slammed Ocasio-Cortez for her muted response to Biden\u2019s border crisis after being an outspoken critic of Trump\u2019s immigration policies and referring to migrant detainment facilities as \u201cconcentration camps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is AOC?\u201d Graham asked. \u201cWhy aren\u2019t you at the border looking at the things being reported. If you were worried about children under Trump being in bad conditions, this is worse. If you\u2019re worried about people having COVID outbreaks, this is the biggest COVID spreader in the entire country. So where are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In June 2019,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ocasio-cortez-trump-running-concentration-camps-ryan-saavedra\">Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>&nbsp;accused the Trump administration of running \u201cconcentration camps\u201d on the U.S. southern border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is running concentration camps on our southern border and that is exactly what they are,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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