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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) didn’t mince her phrases when requested about Republicans who are actually cool with federal immigration brokers not carrying masks regardless of previous claims that officers can be unsafe in the event that they did so.

“They were always full of it then, and they are full of it now,” Ocasio-Cortez informed Pablo Manríquez, editor of Migrant Insider, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

Her feedback arrive after President Donald Trump introduced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers can be despatched to airports nationwide this week in an effort to help Transportation Security Administration brokers juggling staffing shortages and callouts brought on by the partial authorities shutdown.

The transfer, which critics see because the administration including gas to the hearth of an already tense scenario for vacationers, got here with a directive from the president for the ICE brokers: “NO MASKS.”

Trump, in a put up to his Truth Social platform on Monday, wrote that whereas he’s a “BIG proponent” of brokers carrying masks whereas coping with “hardened criminals,” he would “greatly appreciate” brokers not sporting them at airports.

The president’s masks exception marks a notable flip from the place Republicans had been on the problem earlier than the TSA staffing disaster.

Last month, GOP lawmakers signaled their opposition to Democrats who’ve regarded to restrict ICE operations, together with barring brokers from carrying masks, as a authorities shutdown loomed.

“They’ll find out where they live, they’ll harass their families, or worse,” mentioned Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) on his fears of individuals doxxing ICE brokers who don’t put on masks.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) additionally expressed considerations that “vicious people” may snap a photograph of ICE brokers’ faces, leading to threats in opposition to their family members.

“That’s just the reality of the world that we’re in,” he mentioned.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) slammed calls from the left for brokers to take away masks final 12 months, telling Fox News, “From the people who mandated mask-wearing for years in America, it’s absurd.”