Graham Asks ‘Where Is AOC?’ When Discussing How Dems Have Responded To Border Crisis
Sen. Lindsey Graham (S-S.C.) is wondering why Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats have been silent about the situation at the southern border. “There used to be Democrats who understood, to get…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (S-S.C.) is wondering why Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats have been silent about the situation at the southern border.
“There used to be Democrats who understood, to get legalization on the table, you had to address the underlying causes of illegal Immigration. Those voices have been silenced. The open-borders crowd is now firmly in control of Immigration,” Graham said Wednesday.
He continued, “Where is AOC? Why aren’t 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’re worried about people having COVID outbreaks, this is the biggest COVID spreader in the entire country. So where are you?”
Watch Graham’s remarks below:
Ocasio-Cortez has criticized both the Trump administration and Biden administration for the treatment of migrant children.
In 2018, she traveled to detention camps to protest, “The child detention camps are here – I confronted the border officers myself. Using their names, I told them exactly what they are responsible for,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter.
She added, “One of them made eye contact with me. I spoke directly to him. I saw his sense of guilt. We can dismantle this.”
In 2019, Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to reflect on the moment she saw the facilities, “I’ll never forget this, because it was the moment I saw with my own eyes that the America I love was becoming a nation that steals refugee children from their parents, and caged them.”
She added, “More kids died after this. To date, no one has been held accountable. We need to save these kids.”
After migrant facilities for children reopened under the Biden administration in February, Ocasio-Cortez expressed her frustration with the decision.
“This is not okay, never has been okay, never will be okay – no matter the administration or party,” she said in a tweet. “Our Immigration system is built on a carceral framework. It’s no accident that challenging how we approach both these issues are considered ‘controversial’ stances.”
Ocasio-Cortez continued, “They require reimagining our relationship to each other and challenging common assumptions we take for granted. It’s only 2 into this admin and our fraught, unjust Immigration system will not transform in that time.”
She went on to argue, “That’s why bold reimagination is so . DHS shouldn’t exist, agencies should be reorganized, ICE gotta go, ban for-profit detention, create climate refugee status and more.”
According to CNN, there were 822 children being held in Border Patrol facilities “akin to jail-like conditions” for more than 10 days as of Sunday.