Former ICE Director Tom Homan Shames AOC, Leaves Her Speechless On Immigration

Former acting ICE Director Tom Homan slammed New York freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and left her speechless during Congressional hearings on Friday on the topic of family separations at the southern border.

The Daily Caller reported that the heated exchange began when Rep. Ocasio-Cortez tried to nail Tom Homan down as being the “author” of the “family separation policy” memo, which he had signed.

Tom Homan noted that, while he didn’t write the policy, he had made “numerous recommendations” to Homeland Security, including implementing a “zero tolerance” policy for illegal border crossers.

“Which includes family separation,” Rep. Ocasio-Cortez interrupted.

“The same as it is with every U.S. citizen,” Tom Homan shot back. “Parent [who] gets arrested with a child.”

After a brief moment of pause, the seemingly rattled Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said, “Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated the children from their parents.”

“If I get arrested for DUI and I have a young child in the car I’m gonna be separated,” Tom Homan said. “When I was a police officer in New York and I arrested a father for domestic violence, I separated that father from his family.”

“Mr. Homan, with all due respect, legal asylees are not charged with any crime,” said the congresswoman.

Homan was ready for that, with a specific U.S. code no less: “When you’re in this country illegally, it’s violation 8, United States Code 1325.”

“Seeking asylum is legal,” Rep. Ocasio-Cortez insisted.

“If you want to seek asylum, you go through a port of entry,” Homan responded. “Do it the legal way. The Attorney General of the United States has made that clear.”

“Okay,” said Ocasio-Cortez.

The New York freshman representative also responded to the exchange on Twitter after the hearing, arguing that limited ports of entry at the southern border and restrictions on how many can enter through even the open ports created a desperate situation for many seeking asylum.

The Dems have made political theater out of the fact that Trump’s administration once separated children of illegal immigrants from their parents at the southern border, even though the same practice was prevalent under Ex-President Obama’s administration as well. President Trump signed an executive order ending the policy in June 2018.

Holocaust Survivor Demands Ocasio-Cortez’s Removal From Congress – Nominates Her For The ‘Nobel Prize in Stupidity’

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez just keeps getting shut down by facts. The President of El Salvador came out today and silenced all Trump critics and took the blame for the immigrant deaths at the southern border.

And now we have one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors calling out Ocasio-Cortez for her comments.

The New York Post reported that Ed Mosber, the 93-year-old survivor from Morris Plains, NJ, has no time for Rep. ­Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s statements from last week, when she called the southern border’s immigrant detention centers “concentration camps.”

“She should be removed from Congress. She’s spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity,” He told The NY Post. “The people on the border aren’t forced to be there — they go there on their own will. If someone doesn’t know the difference, either they’re playing stupid or they just don’t care.”

Mosberg, who lost his entire family during the Holocaust and survived both the Plaszów and Mauthausen camps, also said: “Her statement is evil. It hurts a lot of people. At the concentration camp, we were not free. We were forced there by the Germans who executed and murdered people — there’s no way you can compare.”

On June 21, the Holocaust education group From the Depths, of which Ed Mosberg is the president, extended an invitation to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, encouraging her to tour “German Nazi concentration camps” with Mosberg. He said he wanted to take AOC to the museum and memorial site where his mother was murdered in Auschwitz.

Mosberg claimed that he was very disappointed when Rep. Ocasio-Cortez rejected his offer.

“She should be taught a lesson,” said Mosberg. “If you’re not there, you will never know what happened. She doesn’t want to learn — she’s looking for excuses. I would like to nominate her for the Nobel Prize in stupidity.”

If she accepts his still standing offer, he said that he would personally give her a tour of camps.

“I can show her where they killed my mother, my grandparents and cousins so she understands this,” he said. “I will bring her to the place where they give my wife’s mother [benzine] injections to the heart and put her on the fire.”

“Eventually you will see she will lose all the Jewish vote in New York.” the 93-year-old Holocaust survivor concluded.

Jake Tapper Rips Ocasio-Cortez On Border Crisis: ‘Did You Call Them Concentration Camps’ When Obama’s Admin Was Running Them?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t being let off the hook for her “concentration camps” comparison as CNN’s Jake Tapper is grilling her on her position.

After sparking outrage for her comments condemning the Trump administration’s use of holding immigrant children at military bases that were once used as internment camps — which were also used under the Obama administration — AOC isn’t backing down despite push back for seemingly comparing the situation to the Holocaust.

Even after her outspoken criticism of President Trump’s efforts on the situation at the border with Mexico, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez was called out for “hypocrisy” in voting down a border funding bill to address the immigrant crisis. She then said “hell no” as she voted down the Senate bill providing $4.6 billion to help the border situation — again not putting her votes where her mouth is.

“Well if you oppose the Senate bill and you also oppose the House bill, I guess I’m wondering what it is that you’re willing to support that could pass in either the House or the Senate?” Tapper questioned the freshman representative.

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez responded that the President could “declare an emergency right now” — although she opposed his previous national emergency declaration on border security. She also claimed that Congress should “pass a pure humanitarian bill.”

When asked again about opposing both bills and if she’s “just ultimately depriving these kids of housing facilities that they need,” Rep. Ocasio-Cortez claimed that she did it to “send a message.”

When it comes to AOC’s concentration camps comment, Jake Tapper called out the freshman representative for using the term under the Trump administration but not under the Obama administration.

Ocasio-Cortez claimed that she was “was working in a restaurant” under Obama’s presidency — but as Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra pointed out that she was a staffer on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign during the Obama administration.

She even explained during a previous interview with Time that “Sanders’ race was one of my first times where I crossed that bridge from grassroots community organizing to electoral organizing.”

Ocasio-Cortez Refuses To Apologize For ‘Concentration Camp’ Comments – Spreads New Lie Instead

on Friday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez refused to apologize for engaging in Holocaust trivialization when she falsely claimed that the U.S. government was operating concentration camps on the border with Mexico. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez then spread a new lie that it was the Republicans who were intentionally conflating terms in order to attack her, despite the fact that she made clear what she meant during her Instagram video when she specifically referenced the Holocaust.

AOC directly compared the immigrant detention facilities to Holocaust concentration camps as she specifically referenced “Never Again,” which directly refers to the Holocaust.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called out Rep. Ocasio-Cortez for her comments, saying on Wednesday: “I think Congresswoman AOC needs to apologize. Not only to the nation but to the world. She does not understand history. She does not understand what is going on at the border at the same time. But there is no comparison…and to actually say that is really embarrassing. To take something that happened in history where millions of Jews had died, and equate it to somewhere that’s happening on the border, she owes this nation an apology.”

“I think he should apologize for the deliberate conflation and attack on these terms. I think he should apologize for the conditions that he’s supporting on the border,” Rep. Ocasio-Cortez arrogantly said. “He should apologize for his support for widespread human rights abuses — that’s what he should apologize for, and until he stops supporting the absolute dehumanizing conditions on our border, I will not apologize for holding him to account for it.”

Ocasio-Cortez’s claims are false as she directly compared what was going on at the border with Mexico to Holocaust concentration camps.

In a tweet, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez wrote: “As long as the @GOPLeader supports jailing children and families on the border, I will continue to hold him to account for it. That’s why I’m calling on Rep. McCarthy to apologize for aiding and supporting the separation of children from their parents.”

Attorney Matthew J. O’Brien, who served as the Chief of the National Security Division within the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate at the Citizenship and Immigration Services, explained in an interview with The Daily Wire the differences between concentration camps, internment camps, and immigrant detention facilities.

“I think the point that Representative Ocasio-Cortez is missing is that a concentration camp typically refers to a detention facility where a totalitarian regime’s political enemies are kept and the purpose is to nullify them as political enemies,” O’Brien said.

“Internment camp is a general term that in international law and in typical usage refers to a place where people are held temporarily in a conflict because they are either from an enemy power, from a non-allied power, and there is some sort of national security concern or other internal security concern associated with them. Whereas, an immigration detention facility is where people are held pursuant to a democratically passed law because they have no authorization to be in the country and they are temporarily held there while the government is evaluating their claim to any kind of immigration relief and those facilities are regulated.” He continued.

“The distinction between a concentration camp, which is usually regulated by the totalitarian government’s security forces, an Internment facility, which is usually regulated by the military or by a paramilitary security force, and immigration detention, is that immigration detention is monitored by the courts and anyone who is in immigration detention has access to the courts to contest any issues they may have with the detention,” O’Brien continued.

“So to contrast between a totalitarian government using the force of the state to terrorize its political enemies, the temporary internment of people who represent a national security threat … versus a legal process that is designed to protect the safety and security both of the United States and of the people coming into the country because one of the reasons why we detain people in immigration detention is to figure out who they are so we can vet them but also so that we can determine what their purpose is here.” He added.

‘We Are Deeply Disturbed:’ New York Jewish Group Denounces Ocasio-Cortez’s Border Concentration Camps Comment

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is under fire from a Jewish community in her own state after she compared the southern border detention facilities to “concentration camps.”

The controversial freshman made the comment on late Monday during a live video, in which she trashed President Trump, labeling him “fascist,” and condemned his administration’s plans to hold undocumented immigrant children at a facility in Oklahoma.

The facility was once used as a Japanese-American internment camp, but turned into a military base. It’s worth noting, the Obama administration once used the same facilities and others for the same purpose, before stopping after receiving backlash.

“The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border and that is exactly what they are,” said Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.

She continued to reference the term “never again,” which as Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer also pointed out, “‘Never again’ is the phrase that Jews all over the world use to make sure that the extermination between 1939 and 1945 never happens again.”

In a letter to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York condemned her comments.

“We are deeply disturbed by the language used in your recent Instagram live video which seeks to equate the detention centers on America’s southern border with Nazi-era Concentration Camps. The terms ‘Concentration Camp’ and ‘Never Again’ are synonymous with and evocative of the atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany, in which 6 million European Jews were systematically denied civil and human rights due to their race and ultimately murdered in a state-sponsored genocide.” They wrote.

The Jewish council offered Rep. Ocasio-Cortez a visit to a Holocaust museum and visit to a concentration camp to grasp a “better understanding” of the “horrors of the Holocaust.”

The council also urged the freshman Rep. to stop “using terminology evocative of the Holocaust to voice concerns about contemporary political issues” — and this wasn’t Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s first comparison of current politics to Nazi Germany.

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez attempted to defend herself against the “shrieking Republicans,” as she suggested in a post on Twitter that experts define “concentration camps” as “‘the mass detention of civilians without trial.’”

Her remarks, however, didn’t sit well with many, as Republican lawmakers slammed her for “the lack of respect for those serving at the border” and “not lifting a finger to solve the problem” at the southern border.

Border Council VP Blasts Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Slap In The Face’ After She Compared The Border Situation To Concentration Camps

National Border Council Vice President Art Del Cueto i suggesting that freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should “crack open a history book” before making her comments.

The controversial congresswoman showed her distaste for President Trump and his administration’s use of past internment camps, which have been turned into a military base, to hold undocumented immigrant children. She labeled the situation as being “exactly” like concentration camps.

“The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border and that is exactly what they are,” AOC said during a live video this Monday. “They are concentration camps.”

During Tuesday’s interview with Fox News “America’s Newsroom,” anchor Bill Hemmer addressed AOC’s remark that used “the extermination of six million people” to make her point for the border situation.

Del Cueto slammed Ocasio-Cortez’s comparison as “disgusting,” and he added that, “In my eyes, honestly, you lose credibility.”

“‘Never again’ is the phrase that Jews all over the world use to make sure that the extermination between 1939 and 1945 never happens again,” Bill Hemmer said, pointing to Ocasio-Cortez’s “never again” comment.

“And she’s using concentration camps to describe what’s happening on the Southern border,” Bill Hemmer added. “How in the world is that acceptable? Does she not owe every Jew on this planet an apology?”

National border council vice president Art Del Cueto called it “definitely a slap in the face to a lot of these individuals that have family members that actually went through concentration camps. I’ve said it many times, some of these people need to crack open a history book before they make some comments.”

Del Cueto was not the only one criticizing Rep. Ocasio-Cortez for her comments as many others took to Twitter to blast her for the “alarming and dangerous false equivalence.”

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez snapped back on Tuesday, tweeting at the “shrieking Republicans who don’t know the difference: concentration camps are not the same as death camps.” She added, “Concentration camps are considered by experts as ‘the mass detention of civilians without trial.’ And that’s exactly what this administration is doing.”

Rep. Liz Cheney was also among those blasting Rep. Ocasio-Cortez for her comparison, tweeting, “You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this” – which drew a back-and-forth between the two.

Ocasio-Cortez Is Doubling Down On Congressional Pay Raises & It Sounds a Lot Like a Threat

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continued her argument in favor of increasing congressional pay in a series of eyebrow-raising posts on Twitter.

The freshman Democrat doubled down on her support for pay raises for Congress, leaving many to feel like her comments exposed her socialist agenda and amounted to a form of “extortion.”

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez responded on Twitter to a comment on the decision by House Democrats to suspend their efforts to secure a pay raise for the first time in nearly ten years.

The 29-year-old lawmaker who has been in office all of six months, collecting a $174,000 taxpayer-funded salary, told Fox News that the proposed $4,500 pay increase was “not even like a raise.”

Not getting those pay hikes, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez argued on Tuesday morning, will encourage the ongoing existence of “dark money loopholes.”

She also added that the system then rewards “those who rely on money loopholes and other forms of self-dealing” when they are not given pay raises.

The self-proclaimed Democratic socialist drove her point home, and apparently believed that her argument was a good one in favor of pay raises.

“Voting against cost of living increases is 1 reason why dark $ loopholes stay open,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

One of many Twitter users who pushed back against AOC’s remarks, suggesting Congress should et some work done before voting to give themselves a pay raise, prompted Rep. Ocasio-Cortez to tout the benefits of “democratically socialist businesses” and methods.

“Nah @AOC I disagree with you here. Pass term limits, immigration reform, min. Wage increase first, then you can adjust your salaries for cost of living. I’m sure we all would vote to give ourselves a raise too but we can’t.” said a post on Twitter.

But advocating for a pay raise, while warning that voting against the increase will mean “dark money” wins, was not only a questionable stance, it was one that didn’t win many over to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.

Fed-up Americans trying to pay their bills earning regular paychecks called out Rep. Ocasio-Cortez with scathing reminders about counting her blessings – and doing her job.

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Veterans Storm Out Of Meeting With Ocasio-Cortez After She Trashed Trump’s Foreign Policy

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed U.S. foreign policy during a private meeting with Bronx community leaders, prompting two military veterans to storm out of the meeting.

“She knocks the country, she knocks the president. And that’s not what America is about,” said Vietnam War vet and treasurer of Community Board 11, Silvio Mazzella.

Another Army veteran who worked in the NYPD for 38 years, and commanded the Bronx’s homicide detectives, Anthony Vitaliano – was sitting between Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and a staffer for the freshman Dem.

“I just couldn’t hear her BS anymore,” said the former CB11 chairman. “I just got up, got my umbrella in my hand and walked right out.”

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez held the closed-door meeting with about a few members of the board on Wednesday, marking a rare visit to the Bronx part of her district.

One Middle Eastern board member raised the issue of the conflict in Yemen.

In response, the progressive firebrand blasted the U.S. policy of providing bombs to Saudi Arabia, which has supported Yemen’s government in a civil war, according to attendees. Some blamed AOC for not including the roles of other nations in explaining the volatile region’s violence.

“Talking about America, that really turned me off completely,” said Mazzella, 74, who fought in Vietnam from 1966 to 1968.

When Israel came up later in the meeting, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez suggested Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are autocrats, according to a person at the meeting.

“I was revolted,” said the attendee, who didn’t want his name published.

He, Mazzella and Vitaliano stated that they all walked out in disgust before the end of the session.

The NY Post also reported that earlier during the meeting, board members complained about problems with the U.S. Postal Service, which regularly misses mail deliveries, and a local Amtrak property that is a magnet for graffiti vandals. CB 11 is a working-class neighborhood on the eastern side of the Bronx covering Allerton, Morris Park, Pelham Gardens and Van Nest. In addition to parts of the Bronx, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s district includes north-central Queens.

“Did she care about the issues? She wrote them down,” claimed Vitaliano, 78. “The jury will be out on the local issues.”

She “danced around the whole” question of Columbus Day, for which the neighborhood holds a parade every year, said Vitaliano, who supports creating a day for indigenous people and wants to preserve the treasured Italian-American tradition.

Ocasio-Cortez’s office denied that anyone stormed out of the meeting stating: “The only person that left the meeting while it was underway was someone who had to go pick up their children.”

Asked about Ocasio-Cortez’s office response, Vitaliano said, “That’s bulls–t. Everybody that was there knows I walked out.”

Prominent Meteorologist Shuts Down Ocasio-Cortez & Her Wild Climate Claims

A prominent research meteorologist shuts down claims about the climate from socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after the 29-year-old lawmaker revealed that she did not understand the difference between weather and climate.

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez is a climate extremist who has insisted that the world will seemingly end in 12 years unless her policies are adopted. She also claimed that a tornado warning in Washington, was proof of climate change.

“A tornado watch, issued by the National Weather Service was tweeted 2:47 PM Thursday afternoon for the D.C. area. A watch means conditions are favorable for a particular weather event, while a warning means be prepared to move to a protected area,” HotAir noted. “A warning is issued when a tornado, for example, has been spotted in the sky or radar shows intense low-level rotation. In other words, a person should pay attention to weather conditions and be cautious under a watch but if a warning is issued, that is the time to act.”

“The climate crisis is real y’all,” Rep. Ocasio said on Instagram. “Guess we’re at casual tornadoes in growing regions of the country?”

Enter Ryan Maue, a an with a Ph.D. in meteorology, quickly fact-checked Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, posting on Twitter: “I thought this was fake but it’s from [Ocasio-Cortez’s] Instagram story. No idea what she means with “casual tornadoes” and how this line of severe thunderstorms is proof of any ‘climate crisis.’ It’s just the weather in D.C.”

“The Congresswoman [Ocasio-Cortez] does not know the difference between weather and climate,” Ryan Maue added. “Let’s try an easy analogy: Weather is what outfit you wear heading out the door. Climate is your closet wardrobe.”

What’s even funnier is that the PBS article that Ocasio-Cortez “referenced in her Instagram story doesn’t concur that increased tornado activity is the result of climate change,” HotAir added.

Many prominent climate change scientists have pushed back on Ocasio-Cortez’s extremist rhetoric. Here are some of their quotes as reported by Axios:

  • Andrea Dutton, a paleoclimate researcher at the University of Florida: “For some reason the media latched onto the 12 years (2030), presumably because they thought that it helped to get across the message of how quickly we are approaching this and hence how urgently we need action. Unfortunately, this has led to a complete mischaracterization of what the report said.”
  • Gavin Schmidt, who leads NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies: “All the time-limited frames are bulls***. Nothing special happens when the ‘carbon budget’ runs out or we pass whatever temperature target you care about, instead the costs of emissions steadily rise.”
  • Kate Marvel, a climate scientist at NASA: “12 years isn’t a deadline, and climate change isn’t a cliff we fall off — it’s a slope we slide down. We don’t have 12 years to prevent climate change — we have no time. It’s already here. And even under a business-as-usual scenario, the world isn’t going to end in exactly twelve years.”

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez recently backed off from her claim that the world will end in 12 years if her policies were not adopted by the government after she ended up on the receiving end of mockery for several months.

“This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and ‘fact check’ it,” Ocasio-Cortez posted. “Like the ‘world ending in 12 years’ thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows.”

Sarah Palin Wipes The Floor With Ocasio-Cortez After She ‘Fumbled Basic Civics Twice In One Sentence’

Sarah Palin just took on the socialist Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Corte and taught her a lesson in history and civics.

The New York Post reported that Sarah Palin excoriated Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for “fumbling basic civics” by misidentifying the three branches of government — even though the former Alaska governor has been ridiculed for her own series of political blunders.

The gaffe by the newly elected congresswoman was made in a recent Zoom video, in which she tells her supporters, “… if we work our butts off to make sure that we take back all three chambers of Congress — uh, rather, all three chambers of government: the presidency, the Senate, and the House in 2020 …”

An article on Sarah Palin’s website from Monday criticized Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, clamming that she “again proved that her transition into the political fray has been bumpy, to say the least, as she recently fumbled basic civics twice in one sentence.”

Amid her triumph on November 6th, in New York’s 14th congressional district, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez mistakenly stated that Congress has three chambers during a video call uploaded to social media.

AOC quickly corrected herself in the subsequent sentence before then misidentifying the “three chambers of government.”

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said: “If we work our butts off to make sure that we take back all three chambers of Congress — Uh, rather, all three chambers of government: the presidency, the Senate, and the House,” the congresswoman-elect said. “We can’t start working in 2020.”

BizPac Review also reported that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez was on a Justice Democrats strategy call where she encouraged her colleagues to challenge Democrat incumbents who do not accurately represent them in primary elections.

Once her “word slip” was shared and criticized on social media, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez responded by posting a tweet: “Maybe instead of Republicans drooling over every minute of footage of me in slow-mo, waiting to chop up word slips that I correct in real-tomd (sic), they actually step up enough to make the argument they want to make: that they don’t believe people deserve a right to healthcare.”

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