‘Do I Look Like I Care?’: AOC Shreds Trump’s Border Czar In Blunt Free Speech Reminder | EUROtoday

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tore aside White House border czar Tom Homan on Friday after he questioned whether or not she was “impeding” deportation efforts by informing her constituents of their constitutional and authorized rights.

The congresswoman — as a part of a city hall-style occasion in New York City — claimed that Homan threatened to refer her to the Justice Department after she gave a “Know Your Rights with ICE” webinar to these involved about President Donald Trump’s immigration insurance policies.

“And he may want to do it again today and to that I say, come for me, you’re going to have to come for me,” she declared. “Do I look like I care?”

Her feedback arrive on the identical day that Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) responded to Homan’s “chilling” suggestion that he might be arrested for issuing steerage to state staff on what to do when confronted by federal immigration brokers.

Homan, when requested about Evers’ steerage exterior the White House on Thursday, answered, “Wait ’til you see what’s coming.”

Evers accused Republicans of mendacity concerning the steerage — just like suggestions made by Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) earlier this 12 months — in an effort to push “misinformation” and gas what he described as a “fake controversy of their own creation.”

His response comes about one week after the FBI arrested a Milwaukee decide over allegations that she helped a person evade immigration brokers.

Homan has beforehand slammed Ocasio-Cortez for her recommendation to immigrants, steerage that First Amendment advocacy teams have known as “plainly lawful.”

Homan — in a Fox News look in February — mentioned he despatched a letter to the Justice Department to ask concerning the congresswoman’s efforts, questioning whether or not she was “crossing the line” and will “be in trouble.”

In a separate look on the community, he declared that Ocasio-Cortez was “trying to teach” folks “how to evade law enforcement.”

Ocasio-Cortez would later write to Attorney General Pam Bondi to inquire about Homan “threatening political prosecution” in opposition to her.

Ocasio-Cortez, in remarks at her city corridor, referred to these asking tips on how to “protect” one another in response to Trump’s insurance policies.

“We do it by exercising and using our constitutional rights. Our rights are, ‘use it or lose it,’ so we need to use it,” she pressured.

“And we need to challenge them so don’t let them intimidate you into thinking that you’re doing something wrong by telling people what their actual legal constitutional rights are. There’s nothing wrong about it and there’s nothing illegal about it.”

She continued, “And if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me. That’s how I feel about it.”