So we, as members of the United Nations, signed on into an international human rights agreement, saying very clearly that family separation is a violation of international human rights, and then we pursued a policy that violates human rights.
Ocasio-Cortez highlights the contradiction between U.S. policy and international human rights agreements.
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You can’t tell them to get out and then, in a presidential cycle, tell them that they have an obligation to vote for you. We’re either a team or we’re not.
What he wants to do is create—or rather, not even create, because it’s already been created—but protect a class of impunity in America that says, 'You can commit whatever crime, and so long as you pay a check to us, we will protect you.'
Whether it is kidnapping a foreign head of state, whether it is threatening our allies to colonize Greenland, whether it is looking the other way in a genocide: Hypocrisies are vulnerabilities, and they threaten democracies globally.
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