Fresh calls for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be prosecuted erupted on social media after the New York Democrat’s remarks on immigration.
During an NPR interview, Ocasio-Cortez was asked about her live webinar in which she advised illegal migrants in her district how to evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents enforcing the administration’s deportation effort. Her advice had sparked a war of words with President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, who said he reached out to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to see if the congresswoman was impeding immigration laws.
“I was informing all of my constituents of their constitutional protections and in particular, their constitutional protections against illegal search and seizure,” Ocasio-Cortez told National Public Radio host Steve Inskeep.
NPR: “Tom Homan was upset because he felt that you were giving advice to people who were here illegally. Were you?”
AOC: “I was giving advice to ALL of my constituents, yeah.” pic.twitter.com/xFnVJoTMon
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) March 3, 2025
She went on to add that she had her own question for the Justice Department: “Well, there is a member of the Trump administration who is threatening and seeks to open an inquiry. And are you going to do it?”
“I write to request clarity on whether the Department of Justice has yielded to political pressure and attempts to weaponize the agency against elected officials whose speech they disagree with,” she wrote in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi which she shared with NPR.
In another part of the interview, she insisted Republicans are to blame for the current problems with the immigration system.
“I think that we have a problem on immigration because of the lack of progress that we’ve had on this issue, and as we know, Republicans weaponize that lack of progress,” she said.
“I think that a lack of a path to citizenship in the United States, the lack of addressing comprehensive immigration reform creates a large population of undocumented people in the United States and that is allowed to be weaponized in many ways,” she claimed.
AOC’s remark about informing “all” of her constituents ignited backlash on X where many felt it was an admission that she did, in fact, advise criminal illegal aliens on how to evade U.S. immigration laws.
“Teaching illegal aliens how to evade law enforcement is a crime,” Rep. Nancy Mace wrote on X. “Illegal aliens are not citizens, therefore they’re not your constituents. Hope this helps!”
Sounds like a confession to me.
— Brando Republic (@BrandoRepublic) March 3, 2025
AOC: “I was giving advice to ALL of my constituents, yeah.”
So, AOC admits that she considers illegal aliens to be her “constituents.”
— 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠 (@WaywardGreg) March 3, 2025
There you have it. Investigate.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 3, 2025
Since when did illegal foreign national invaders become her constituents?
She just inadvertently told everyone what the plan was.
Importing voters.— Mike Tacular (@MikeTacular33) March 3, 2025
No shame. No remorse.
— Kellie L. Aldrich (@two_bysea) March 3, 2025
