Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, gave a strong speech on the Home flooring Wednesday, slamming the passing of the Laken Riley Act.
“I want the American people to know with eyes wide open what is inside this bill, because we stand here just two days after President Trump gave unconditional pardons to violent criminals who attacked our nation’s Capitol on January 6th,” she said, referring to Donald Trump’s blanket pardon of greater than 1,500 insurrectionists.
“And these are the people who want you to believe—who want us to believe—that they’re trying to ‘keep criminals off the street,’” Ocasio-Cortez added.
She then mounted in on the most critical critique of the invoice, which is that noncitizens danger shedding the suitable to due course of, permitting for the detention of immigrants merely accused of against the law.
“So when a non-public jail camp opens in your city and so they say ‘we didn’t know this was going to happen,’ know that they did, and so they voted for it,” Ocasio-Cortez stated.
“When a dreamer is disappeared from your classroom, when the president of the United States destroys what is left of the Constitution—as he’s announced in his attack on birthright citizenship—they will all say, ‘we didn’t know this was coming,’” she concluded. “And I would like the American individuals to know that they did. This vote represents it.”
