
'I Don't Want To Hear' It!: AOC Calls Out Utter 'Audacity' Of GOP's Immigration Talk
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The congresswoman shaded Rep. Tim Burchett over his immigration question by making one thing "very clear" about the Republican Party.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) made a not-so-subtle jab at Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Thursday following his “illegal” immigrant ask during a House oversight committee hearing.
“The Republican majority is anti-legal immigration in the United States, I want to make that very clear,” Ocasio-Cortez stressed.
Burchett, while questioning blue state governors testifying on “sanctuary” immigration policies, asked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz if he found a “difference” between an “immigrant and an illegal immigrant.”
Minutes later, Ocasio-Cortez closed her remarks in the hearing by addressing talk of “illegal vs. legal immigration” and focusing on the Trump administration’s aggressive stance on the issue.
“They are trying to end legal status in the United States,” she declared before noting that the administration has stripped immigrants from several countries of their temporary protected status to live and work in the United States.