Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Republicans & CBP (as if they would tell on themselves?) are working overtime to discredit my account from the camps. However, you could remove my entire account & the claims still stand. Details are now being corroborated by independent 3rd parties, from courts to inspectors. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @agordonreed: Frederick Douglass knew the importance of the Declaration, which is why he used it to pen a searing indictment of slavery.… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

@justinamash is right about this ⬇️ — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Happy Independence Day! American democracy was once an unspeakable idea. To challenge the divine right of Kings & aristocrats was to challenge the structure of society. The founders’ notion of a government by the people was incredibly radical. And in many ways, it still is. 🇺🇸 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Public_Citizen: As we watch @AOC, @AyannaPressley and @RashidaTlaib expose the horrors of our border camps, don’t forget that private p… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ewarren: No, Jamie. Corporate greed and corruption in Washington are what’s really wrong with America. That’s what got your bank a no-s… — PolitiTweet.org

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4. Econ: We need large-scale public investment to spur job creation for citizens&immigrants alike. Ideally that investment transitions us to a sustainable economy (climate & income-wise). We are overdue to rebuild American infra&it’s going to take ALL of us & immigrants to do it. — PolitiTweet.org

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3. Border policy: As @JulianCastro mentioned in the #DemDebate, it’s time to repeal Section 1325 & 1326, the statutes this admin is using to mindlessly throw people in cages. We have to take these proceedings out of criminal code & into civil code. Torture accomplishes nothing. — PolitiTweet.org

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2. Climate change: There is broad consensus from military to activists that resource strains (droughts, famine, etc) & nat disasters are drivers of refugees. People are fleeing places that were once livable &are no longer. It will get worse the longer we do nothing #GreenNewDeal — PolitiTweet.org

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A thread of some of the policy approaches we should consider wrt immigration: 1. Foreign policy: Reinstate US humanitarian aid in the Northern Triangle, where people are fleeing. US should start acting like a real partner in Latin America,& increase visas where we intervene. — PolitiTweet.org

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The cruelty is the goal. It’s called “deterrence” - a policy stance that if our country inflicts enough pain on refugees, they will think twice before believing America is worth their dreams & aspirations. Only policy change can end cruelty, not blank checks to the status quo. — PolitiTweet.org

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The GOP’s grand plan to “Make America Great Again” is to hurt children, immigrants, refugees into thinking America isn’t great - that it’s cruel & inhumane - so people don’t come at all. But America isn’t America at all without immigrants. To turn them away is Un-American. — PolitiTweet.org

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When you stand up to bullies once, it gets easier to do each following time. I am used to the right’s behavior towards me - but I will never get used to their heartless cruelty towards other human beings escaping violence & despair, nor their indifference to everyday Americans. — PolitiTweet.org

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@hayleyalvz Of course. Our prayers are with you - and we will work our hardest to honor his last wish to Congress. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fmr. Detective Luis Alvarez, 9/11 first responder, & loving father of 3 sons, left us far too soon. He spent his last days fighting for the 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund. Some issues should be above partisanship or delay. We must pass the bill as soon as Congress reconvenes. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cmclymer: This is remarkable: yesterday morning, more than 140 renowned professors w/ a focus on Holocaust and genocide studies publish… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MollyJongFast: So what @AOC told us was true. https://t.co/mehk6kkNdq — PolitiTweet.org

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Also @KellyannePolls, maybe you actually do your job and show up to a Congressional hearing next time you want to talk to me. After all you, you ran away and skipped out on Oversight committee last week, just to call into Fox and Friends instead. 🤷🏽‍♀️ — PolitiTweet.org

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Are CBP officers waking up women in the middle of sleep a “funding” problem? Is calling migrants “filthy” “wh*res” a funding problem? Is threatening violence on members of Congress a “funding” problem? No, it’s not. It’s a far deeper, systemic, more violent problem than that. — PolitiTweet.org

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The $4.6 billion wasn’t humanitarian at all. It had NO accountability measures for facilities that abuse children and families. It didn’t fix the problem, just funded abuse. I don’t believe in billion dollar blank checks for unethical, abusive administrations. Including yours. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AyannaPressley: What comes next after bearing witness to the violence and cruelty at the border? This comes next. Thank you Chairman @R… — PolitiTweet.org

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The right is responding to what’s been exposed at the border by denying it & saying I’m lying. Hard to assert when the details I shared are corroborated by other members of Congress, court documents, migrant testimony, and now photos released today by the Inspector General. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ndrew_lawrence: Dan Crenshaw says @AOC is lying about conditions at detention centers He then goes on to lie about her calling ICE naz… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dandrezner: I believe it was @mattklewis who asked whether Americans should believe ICE sources or @AOC on the conditions at border fac… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KatzOnEarth: I interviewed @AOC about what she saw inside the El Paso camps: a border guard taking selfies, detainees freezing in the "… — PolitiTweet.org

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These are concentration camps. According to concentration camp experts, people begin to die due to overcrowding, neglect, and shortage of resources. We saw all three of those signs on our trip yesterday. Another person died yesterday. And those are the deaths we know about. — PolitiTweet.org

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We just experienced *the hottest month ever recorded on Planet Earth.* Unless we act drastically now, it’s only going to get worse. What will that mean for our food, water, shelter, safety? We need a #GreenNewDeal. Now. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RepJoeKennedy: Do not miss the racist, sexist slurs @RashidaTlaib @RepEscobar @AOC @AyannaPressley and others face for doing their jobs… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @giligetz: Breaking!!! Young Jews with @NeverAgainActn are about to be arrested for blocking ICE building in solidarity with refugees a… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @aly_mixed_up: 200 Jews are shutting down an ICE detention center because we when we say never again we 👏🏼 fucking 👏🏼 mean 👏🏼 it. #Never… — PolitiTweet.org