{"id":366529,"date":"2021-04-01T07:45:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=366529"},"modified":"2021-04-01T07:45:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:45:52","slug":"former-acting-ice-director-blasts-aoc-over-surge-comments-aoc-should-not-be-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-acting-ice-director-blasts-aoc-over-surge-comments-aoc-should-not-be-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Acting ICE Director Blasts AOC Over \u2018Surge\u2019 Comments: AOC Should Not Be In Congress"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fformer-acting-ice-director-blasts-aoc-over-surge-comments-aoc-should-not-be-in-congress%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=366529&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\/04\/fb_image-16.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and the Biden administration during an interview this week over the border crisis that has erupted under the new administration.<\/p>\n<p>Homan said that the current border crisis was the worst that he\u2019s ever seen and that it was \u201ctotally preventable.\u201d Homan said that the Biden administration was explicitly warned that if they ended the Trump administration\u2019s policies, it would trigger everything that has happened.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration \u201cknew what they were doing, again this isn\u2019t incompetence, this isn\u2019t bad management, this is open borders,\u201d Homan said. \u201cThey designed an open borders agenda and that men and women of Border Patrol feel abandoned because they\u2019re no longer enforcing the law, they\u2019re just facilitating illegally entry at the instruction of the administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, when asked about recent remarks from Ocasio-Cortez, who said this week that anyone calling the border crisis a \u201csurge\u201d was essentially racist, Homan said.<\/p>\n<p>AOC \u201cneeds to come down and talk to the men and women who put the uniform on every day and stand in that line,\u201d Homan said. \u201cLook the men and women of the Border Patrol say it\u2019s a surge. The men and women of the Border Patrol [say] it\u2019s a crisis. The men and women of the Border Patrol know what Brian Babin said, that these cartels are using these children or family units to throw them across the border and tie up their assets, 40% of Border Patrol is assigned to the vicinity, no longer in line. So, these cartels are moving drugs and bad people through unguarded areas, this is a national security crisis and if she can\u2019t understand that or accept that, then she shouldn\u2019t be in Congress at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id>\n<p><em>BRIAN KILMEADE, FOX NEWS HOST:&nbsp; Shocking images from inside a cramped border, this came through yesterday, if you haven\u2019t seen it, don\u2019t blame yourself, it just came out. This is the facility in Donna, Texas, showing migrants stacked wall-to-wall. Many are unaccompanied children just sitting there, laying there, waiting to be processed. Texas Congressman Brian Babin and retired Acting ICE Director Tom Homan both toured the southern border together. They join us now to talk about what they saw because they saw a lot more than just these images. Thanks to you both. Congressman you\u2019re no stranger to this area, what was different about this visit?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REP. BRIAN BABIN (R-TX): Well it\u2019s out of control, you know, I mean in spite of what the Biden administration is telling us, \u2018this is not a crisis even, there\u2019s just a challenge, etc\u2026\u2019 We know it\u2019s a humanitarian crisis, not only for the migrants that were coming in, my heart just went out to some of these children in a facility there in Donna that should be holding 250 and they\u2019ve got 5,700 people stacked in there like sardines and they just don\u2019t just seem to realize what\u2019s going on there. The Border Patrol as Tom will tell you, are, I think the morale is down, but they\u2019re doing a tremendous job, but they\u2019re battin\u2019 with a short stick and then opening up the borders of the United States of America and absolutely creating this problem and putting Americans in danger as well as these migrants and the stunning cost of what is happening there, it\u2019s just unbelievable, Brian.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KILMEADE: I know we\u2019re getting hotels, we\u2019re converting military bases, we\u2019re taking over the convention centers not even telling the governors. Tom it takes a lot to rattle you from what you saw. Where does this rank in outrageous scenes at the border in your career?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TOM HOMAN, FORMER ACTING ICE DIRECTOR: It\u2019s the worst because this was totally preventable. Now the Biden administration, the incoming administration was warned, they said if you if you end these programs, we\u2019re going to see a surge that you\u2019ve never seen before. They were briefed by leadership at ICE, at CBP, I\u2019ve talked to people that briefed them. And so they knew this would happened. Look, Brian, I wrote an op-ed in July of last year saying this would happen if they ended these policies. They knew what they were doing, again this isn\u2019t incompetence, this isn\u2019t you know bad management, this is open borders. They designed an open borders agenda and that men and women of Border Patrol feel abandoned because they\u2019re no longer enforcing the law, they\u2019re just facilitating illegally entry at the instruction of the administration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KILMEADE: And you were telling me before that they feel abandoned, but you used the word \u2018surge.\u2019 You offended a congresswoman from Queens, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Here\u2019s what I\u2019m talking about.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[START VIDEO]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REP. ALEXNADRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): First of all, just gut check, stop. Anyone who is using the term \u2018surge\u2019 around you consciously, is trying to invoke a militaristic frame. \u2026 This is not a surge, these are children and they are not insurgents, and we are not being invaded.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[END VIDEO]&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KILMEADE: Congressmen, how dare you insult her by using the word \u2018surge.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BABIN: Where is she now, Brian? Why isn\u2019t she down here? I can tell you leading this delegation of Texas congressman and former professionals in this very business, we actually asked after Vice President Kamala Harris was given charge of the border situation by President Biden, we actually invited her. We invited her to come and visit with us at some of these spots on our itinerary, we heard nothing whatsoever, and absolutely while this administration is telling us to continue to wear masks and only visit with just very few people up until July, they are stacking people who are COVID-positive, children on top of one another, and releasing them into the public to fan out across Texas and across this United States in the middle of a pandemic. They have, it\u2019s just hard to comprehend how they can justify this except that I think this is their plan. They want open borders, they want as many of these people to come in and get on government assistance and become voting citizens or at least voting you know people that would come in and continue the Democrat majority. And \u2026 I think people just need to wake up and if it wasn\u2019t for people like you Brian and Fox News, they would not be getting the truth and that\u2019s what we need is the truth here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KILMEADE: Right. Tom you insulted her when you use the warlike term \u2018surge.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>HOMAN: Well she needs to come down and talk to the men and women who put the uniform on every day and stand in that line.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KILMEADE: She came down when Trump was president.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>HOMAN: Oh absolutely, but you haven\u2019t seen her since. Look the men and women of the Border Patrol say it\u2019s a surge. The men and women of the Border Patrol [say] it\u2019s a crisis. The men and women of the Border Patrol know what Brian Babin said, that these cartels are using these children or family units to throw them across the border and tie up their assets, 40% of Border Patrol is assigned to the vicinity, no longer in line. So, these cartels are moving drugs and bad people through unguarded areas, this is a national security crisis and if she can\u2019t understand that or accept that, then she shouldn\u2019t be in Congress at all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KILMEADE: Yeah, what\u2019s unbelievable is the vice president was given this portfolio, clearly by the president, she takes the weekend off and says, I\u2019m not going to the border. I\u2019m going to the origin of where the problem is. I don\u2019t know who\u2019s more powerful in that administration. It\u2019s hard to know, I don\u2019t even know what she\u2019s doing. But it\u2019s hard to believe that that would be you\u2019d want the job and then not do the job. Congressman, Tom Homan, thanks so much.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan slammed Rep. 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