'Grow a little bit of a spine': AOC rejects immigration crisis framing by duplicitous GOP

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks with Alex Wagner about the value of immigrants to the American economy and culture and the duplicitousness of Republicans playing political games with immigration that ultimately amounts to "economic self-sabotage." 


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#AOC #GOP #immigration

[mazaro]

Do you make any difference between migration and illegal migration?

[j.]

Illegal immigrants, why is that so hard to understand?

[brucepoole]

While I am quite liberal, I see no downside to a secure border, it just seems logical for many reasons.

[Cbed]

I don’t understand why they blurred the lines between illegal immigration and legal immigration we need people coming here that go through a legal process not by sneaking in and living in local city schools

[muay_khao]

What's degrading and demeaning about working in a slaughterhouse?

[DelusionThread]

The facts once again elude MSNBC: migrants and illegal immigrants are not the same thing. Saying so doesn't make it so. The sad part is they both know it.

[PJ-gxji]

Not a peep about the murdered Georgia nursing student? Shows how much she cares about us.

[johnparadox]

There is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.

Robert A. Heinlein

[t.mfeeler]

To say that any job that anyone performs to make a living is degrading is sooo elitist.

[grimjim]

Eyes wide open like a deer looking at headlights. AOOC is so incompetent at governing. Total waste of a congressional seat.

[quetimporta]

She makes me embarrassed to call myself half Puerto Rican. We do not all associate with the woman

[emom]

Degrading? Dehumanizing? No, any job is a good job if it pays the bills. Place for children to work? HELLS NO! Why would you sell your childrens futures that unions worked so hard to get them out of?

[coreyfranco]

She thinks that the process of moving immigrants in isnt moving fast enough? We also need to give them citizenship quicker? Why do we need to do that? Wouldn't that be watering down the value of citizenship?

[MJEmjay]

I can listen to AOC all day and night.

[-VincentVictorian]

Did you just say working in a slaughterhouse is dehumanizing?!
Let me tell you something. Is policy strove my town broke That slaughterhouse is all we had. But you picked up you sold off our land you sold off our jobs. You closed down our slaughter house. And then you have the nerve to wonder what happened. All those bikers and missing yippees during the 1960s and into 1974.

[PJ-gxji]

So why doesn't she want them in her own district?

[Iamabot]

I would love for Joe Biden to go in front of the American people and say there’s no crisis at the border definitely a winning strategy

[teslainthehood]

1. If Americans are struggling, what does she think migrants are gonna do how likely are they gonna be to get off the system?🤔
2. exploiting loopholes and asylum system meaning most don’t even qualify for asylum forgetting that also? Yet we foot the bill.

[johndowner]

Habba should watch this to see what attractive women really look like.

[nodakrome]

"Under current Kentucky child labor law, 16- and 17-year-olds can work up to six hours on school days and eight on weekends, totaling up to 40 hours a week while maintaining a 2.0 GPA.

This age group cannot work between the hours of 10:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. on school days, and after 1 a.m. on a non-school night.

According to the FLSA, 16- and 17-year-olds can be employed for unlimited hours in any occupation except those the Secretary of Labor deems hazardous." FEDERAL LAW.