Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I think it's really great for people to keep thinking that.

I won't go back, but forward.

Did you see the images of officers circulating photo-shopped images of my violent rape?

Did you see the posts mocking migrant children's deaths?

And do you agree with the Federal court's decision that halted your child separation policy?

Under the subpoenas that we issued to DHS, your office has produced to this committee data showing that child separations skyrocketed after your zero tolerance policy went into effect.

Do you think that there is any risk here? From scrip to the issues with how Facebook handled our elections.

Why should these activities be consolidated under one corporation?

We are discussing a currency controlled by an un-democratically selected coalition of largely massive corporations.

Were they democratically elected?

Does this mean, as stated, that the Libra Association does not set monetary policy but it mints and burns coins in response to demand from authorized resellers?

I am not surprised when the president says that four sitting members of Congress should, quote, go back to their own country, when he has authorized raids without warrants on thousands of families across this country.

We are not deterred, we are not frightened, we are ready. We are organizing, and we are not going anywhere.

This amendment prohibits the executive branch from using the authorized funds to detain undocumented immigrants in Department of Defense facilities. One of the central aspects of the crisis at our border is that the administration is…

I present an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end of subtitle E of title 10 the following: SEC. __. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR…

I think it is important that we clarify that in order to have a humane immigration system, we do not require militarization or cruelty to children. Asking that children not be caged and asking that human beings' rights--human rights--be…

The deployment of troops on our border is a relatively new phenomenon. It is one that is unprecedented, and it represents an unnecessary militarization toward what should be seen as a humanitarian crisis. Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to…

We had no other choice, and very quickly thereafter, we learned that children were being moved out of the facility in the hundreds and that CBP was releasing thousands of children.

When we were at these facilities, one of the things that I had noticed was that there were these tents in the back with--I mean, they looked like cages, and I know that a lot of the migrants, they call the cold rooms 'hieleras,' and they…

Mr. Homan, your name is on this. Is this correct?

And so I looked at this memo, and it seems like this is the source of it, and it seems as though, Mr. Homan, that you are the author.

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…

We had heard reports that there were hundreds of people in the El Paso border station.

These policies have created the humanitarian crisis and a moral one.

We've seen severe overcrowding in Border Patrol processing centers that is so inhumane that the DHS Office of the Inspector General described it as dangerous because it represents an immediate risk to agents and migrants alike.