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Ocasio-Cortez: Illegal Aliens Are ‘My Constituents'

2019-03-18

[Free Beacon] Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) referred to illegal immigrants as her "constituents" during a Thursday House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing.

Ocasio-Cortez was questioning Wilbur Ross, President Donald Trump's secretary of commerce, when she made the statement. She began by referencing remarks Republican Kris Kobach made while he was Kansas secretary of state. Kobach encouraged Trump early on in his administration to add a 2020 consensus question about citizenship.

"Kobach said, ’I raised the issue with the president shortly after he was inaugurated' and ’he was absolutely interested in this,'" Ocasio-Cortez said. "Shortly thereafter, in April of 2017, Steve Bannon asked you to speak with Mr. Kobach about his ’ideas about including a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census.'"

Ross acknowledged he did speak with Kobach early on in the administration, but he was cut off by Ocasio-Cortez before he could clarify what exactly the conversation was about.

"I'm sorry, I must reclaim my time," Ocasio-Cortez said.

Posted by:Besoeker

#14 For further reference, 50% of her district's population is listed as Hispanic. So above assumptions would place the local illegal population at roughly 9.25 % of the local population.

Posted by: Vernal Hatrack2366 2019-03-18 22:01

#13 And that's why a closer look at the numbers is important. She's probably telling the truth, and everybody thinks that she's "just" spouting typical prog-tard claptrap. What a witch.

Posted by: Vernal Hatrack2366 2019-03-18 21:58

#12 Assuming that 5% of illegals present in the district voted, and that they made up, say, 10% of the votes cast for her (I think both numbers are high, but whatever, we'll say that those are the numbers for now). Her district would be home to 32,000 illegals. That seems implausible, at least at first glance, but it would actually put the illegals at 4.6 percent of the district population, the minimum number of the national population they are currently at. Her election could very well be because of illegals. If it was, and she knows it, she's not just a politically correct assh***, she's a traitor, and should be executed like one.

Posted by: Vernal Hatrack2366 2019-03-18 21:57

#11 Not the Bee.

-puts a dollar in the jar-

Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-03-18 15:00

#10 Sounds like a target-rich environment for ICE, thanks for the heads-up, dipshit

Posted by: Frank G 2019-03-18 13:54

#9 So, her district has 16,000 illegals...

Posted by: CrazyFool 2019-03-18 13:24

#8 Ricardo's Law of Rent

Which is probably the more important in the current economy.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-03-18 12:50

#7 Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) referred to illegal immigrants as her "constituents"

How many illegal aliens voted for her?

Posted by: JohnQC 2019-03-18 12:37

#6 She was elected by 16,000 votes. She did not win by that, that was all the votes she got, total.

Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-03-18 12:20

#5 Ricardo’s Law of Comparative Advantage

Posted by: trailing wife 2019-03-18 12:19

#4 Yes, yes. We know, girl. Never mind the citizens in your district.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-03-18 11:56

#3 globalists and progressivists are puppets of those who know Ricardo's law very well and ensure other's don't know it in order to make themselves very rich and live off the backs of those who do work while making them spout some dodgy economics about effectively subsidised trade.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-03-18 09:19

#2 Openly declaring she is an globalist socialist, ie communist, of the limousine variety (see - Bernie).

Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-03-18 08:39

#1 I'd say that's as fundamental an admission of having no idea what that oath to defend the Constitution means as is possible to utter...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-03-18 07:15

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