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AOC facing backlash after she’s asked about migrants being placed in schools: ‘It’s not in my district’

January 13, 2024 | | Print Article

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing backlash over her indifference to how the illegal alien migrant crisis is affecting New York City.

As previously reported, NYC officials kicked public high school students out of school earlier this week to make room to house illegal aliens.

Asked about this on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez shrugged it off as irrelevant because it isn’t yet affecting her district.

“Are you okay with a school being used as a shelter?” Fox Business reporter Hillary Vaughn asked her.

“It’s not in my district,” the congresswoman initially replied.

She later at least had the decency to admit that shuffling illegals into public schools isn’t a “long-term solution.”

“I think it’s very clear here that what’s most important is that we identify a facility that’s appropriate for these folks,” she said. “I don’t anticipate this being a long-term solution. It shouldn’t be a long-term solution.”

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But many believe the right answer was that funneling illegals into schools shouldn’t be a solution, period. The solution, in fact, is for Democrats like Ocasio-Cortez, among others, to stop incentivizing and enabling illegal migration.

Fox Business Network host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery for her part responded to the congresswoman’s remarks by blaming the crisis on the exact sorts of policies that congressional Democrats like Ocasio-Cortez regularly push.

“It’s her policies, and that’s the problem,” she said. “People like AOC aren’t taking ownership of their philosophy, which is bankrupting cities across the country. And people in New York, people in Chicago never really had to think about the immigration crisis, because to them it was theoretical. Well, now it’s actual.”

Meanwhile, social media users responded to her rhetoric by noting that she clearly doesn’t have a problem sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong, meaning her “not my district” remark is irrelevant.

They also accused her of being a shameless, apathetic “NIMBY.”

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Notice what one critic wrote: “Ocasio-Cortez seems to basically believe that we should allow all illegal immigrants (or ‘asylum seekers’) into the country without any kinds of controls in place, and that we should let them use taxpayer funds.”

This is true. Indeed, recall that three years ago she blasted fellow Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris for committing the apparent crime of urging illegal aliens to “not come” to the United States:

Also, earlier this very week, she asserted that the solution to the migrant crisis is to just hand over legal status to the millions of illegals streaming across the southern U.S. border.

“From all parts of the political spectrum, one of the biggest issues that we have when it comes to immigration is that we have an undocumented population,” she said.

“Now you can fix that by trying to build a wall, or you can fix that by trying to document people,” she added.

Meaning give the “undocumented” migrants official legal paperwork.

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