{"id":376182,"date":"2021-04-02T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=376182"},"modified":"2021-04-02T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:31:18","slug":"aoc-downplays-bidens-border-crisis-people-like-to-weaponize-it-pretend-its-a-new-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-downplays-bidens-border-crisis-people-like-to-weaponize-it-pretend-its-a-new-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Downplays Biden\u2019s Border Crisis: People \u2018Like To Weaponize It,\u2019 \u2018Pretend\u2019 It\u2019s A \u2018New Emergency\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\">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%2Faoc-downplays-bidens-border-crisis-people-like-to-weaponize-it-pretend-its-a-new-emergency%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=376182&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-281.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) attempted to downplay President Joe Biden\u2019s border crisis this week by falsely suggesting that it was not as bad as the situation under former President Donald Trump and claiming that people were trying to \u201cweaponize\u201d the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks during a virtual town hall event for her 14th Congressional District in New York, which comes after she has been called out for weeks over her silence about the crisis that has erupted on the southern border under Biden.<\/p>\n<p>During her remarks, Ocasio-Cortez said that the lawful border security and immigration enforcement apparatus that the United States uses was morally \u201cwrong.\u201d The far-left lawmaker suggested that authorities even temporarily holding people who were trying to illegally enter the U.S. was \u201cwrong.\u201d She did not even know what CBP stood for, claiming it was the Customs and Border Patrol, when it\u2019s Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez suggested without evidence that the Trump administration\u2019s immigration enforcement policies contributed to the crisis at the border and that immigrants that were subjected to some of the Trump administration\u2019s policies were owed \u201creparations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then we have these complete inhumane conditions at CBP facilities and some of just the horrifying things that we\u2019ve seen. Now, the first thing I want to say is that the fact that this keeps happening over and over and over again, is a political failure by both parties,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said as she started to downplay the crisis under Biden. \u201cAnd I want to be very clear about that, because I don\u2019t want to drop false equivalence. What is happening here is not the same as what happened during the Trump administration, where they took babies out of the arms of their mothers, and deported their families and permanently traumatize these children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the Biden\u2019s administrations policies are different, mainstream media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2021\/03\/06\/migrant-children-facility-used-house-minors-separated-family\/4587455001\/\">reports<\/a> have indicated that the Biden administration is separating children from their parents, sometimes for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I don\u2019t want to excuse any of this, But I also I don\u2019t think we should also get them twisted together, because one is not the same,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd we cannot dust that under the rug. And by the way, those families are owed reparations, period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez claimed that U.S. foreign policy is responsible for what is happening in Central America right now and she continued to blame Trump, claiming that Trump beefing up border security contributed to the problem, which is not true. Mexico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trade-mexico-immigration\/mexico-says-it-has-deployed-15000-forces-in-the-north-to-halt-u-s-bound-migration-idUSKCN1TP2YN\">deployed<\/a> thousands of troops under Trump to help stop illegal immigration into the U.S. and has recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-immigration-mexico-border\/mexico-rolls-out-steps-to-tighten-southern-border-with-guatemala-idUSKBN2BB2FU\">deployed<\/a> troops to their own southern border to cut off illegal immigration flooding into Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been in contact with the Biden administration, personally, and what I can tell you that\u2019s different about this administration,\u201d she said. \u201cAgain, I\u2019m not here to excuse it, I\u2019m not here to say this is good. I\u2019m not here to do anything. But one thing that is different, is that they\u2019re trying to figure out and they\u2019re trying to, to create the resources to actually end this problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Numerous former officials have stated that top career officials, not just political appointees, warned the Biden administration that if they overturned the Trump administration\u2019s policies that it would cause a crisis on the border. AOC claimed that the Trump administration contributed to the crisis \u201cwith this freaking census question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan has gone as far as to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-ice-director-sounds-alarm-biden-flooding-america-with-illegal-immigrants-to-expand-democrats-power\">claim<\/a> that Biden intentionally \u201cdesigned\u201d the situation on the southern border because he wants those who are flooding into the U.S. to \u201cbe counted on the census\u201d because that \u201cleads to seats in the House [and] Electoral College in elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AOC also demonized those who claim what is going on at the border is a surge, saying that the U.S. was not being invaded and that that type of language was dehumanizing. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/31\/politics\/migrants-us-southern-border\/index.html\">report<\/a> by CNN this week said that the U.S. is on track to see 2 million migrants on the southern border this year, that is more than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, and Alaska\u2014<em>combined<\/em>.<\/p>\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>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) attempted to downplay President Joe Biden\u2019s border crisis this week by falsely suggesting that it was not as bad as the situation under former President Donald &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311563,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-281.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"AOC Downplays Biden\u2019s Border Crisis: People \u2018Like To Weaponize It,\u2019 \u2018Pretend\u2019 It\u2019s A \u2018New Emergency\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-281.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"AOC Downplays Biden\u2019s Border Crisis: People \u2018Like To Weaponize It,\u2019 \u2018Pretend\u2019 It\u2019s A \u2018New Emergency\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}