Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “President Trump ran on a promise to the American people that ICE would go after the worst of the worst. Well, we are now…”

“President Trump ran on a promise to the American people that ICE would go after the worst of the worst. Well, we are now coming up on a year of this Presidency, and I want to talk to the folks at home who feel disillusioned by what ICE is doing in our country. What we have seen is that ICE is not overwhelmingly going after criminals. In fact, over 70 percent of people currently detained in detention facilities do not have a criminal record. Who are they going after? They are going after 6-year-olds in my district. They are going after students and permanent residents for their political views. They are going after Americans born and raised in the United States. Time and time again, Trump has floated taking away citizenship from U.S. citizens based on their ethnicity. At every point, this administration has lied to us about ICE in America while some of the wealthiest actors in our country have tried to sell us a myth to defend it, including private prison contractors. That myth, that ideology, is that our immigrant neighbors are our enemies and more dangerous than us. They sustain that myth because if everybody believes it, they can get away with robbing all of us. I want to remind you where the real crime is. It is in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from healthcare and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.”