Former ICE Director Tom Homan Leaves Ocasio-Cortez Speechless On Immigration – IOTW Report

Former ICE Director Tom Homan Leaves Ocasio-Cortez Speechless On Immigration

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Former acting ICE Director Tom Homan left New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speechless during Congressional hearings Friday on the topic of family separations at the border.

The exchange began when Ocasio-Cortez tried to nail Homan down as being the “author” of the “family separation policy” memo, which he had signed.

Homan noted that, while he did not write the policy, he had made “numerous recommendations” to Homeland Security, including implementing a “zero tolerance” policy for illegal border crossers.

“Which includes family separation,” Ocasio-Cortez interrupted.

“The same as it is with every U.S. citizen,” Homan shot back. “Parent [who] gets arrested with a child.”

After a brief pause, a seemingly rattled Ocasio-Cortez said, “Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated the children from their parents.” 

“If I get arrested for DUI and I have a young child in the car I’m gonna be separated,” Homan said. “When I was a police officer in New York and I arrested a father for domestic violence, I separated that father from his family.”

“Mr. Homan, with all due respect, legal asylees are not charged with any crime,” said the congresswoman.

But Homan was ready, with a specific U.S. code no less: “When you’re in this country illegally, it’s violation 8, United States Code 1325.”

“Seeking asylum is legal,” she insisted.

“If you want to seek asylum, you go through a port of entry,” he responded. “Do it the legal way. The Attorney General of the United States has made that clear.”

“Okay,” said Ocasio-Cortez.

The New York Democrat responded to the exchange on Twitter after the hearing, arguing that limited ports of entry and restrictions on how many can enter through even the open ports created a desperate situation for many seeking asylum.

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22 Comments on Former ICE Director Tom Homan Leaves Ocasio-Cortez Speechless On Immigration

  1. So, AOC trots out a BS talking point, isn’t ready for an actual response from someone who isn’t afraid of the jumped up witch and gets her head handed to her. She has to retreat to twitter sometime later to try to respond and ends up with just rephrasing the talking point without any proof. Frankly, I don’t know why Pelosi (who may be nutty but not stupid) is having a problem handling her.

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  2. Yo AOC, let’s kick it

    ICE ICE baby
    ICE ICE baby

    Alright stop, collaborate and listen
    ICE is back with my brand new invention
    Something grabs a hold of me tightly
    Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
    Will it ever stop yo I don’t know
    Turn off the lights and I’ll glow

    To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
    Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle
    Dance go rush to the speaker that booms
    I’m killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom

    ICE ICE BABY
    ICE ICE BABY…

    🙂 🙂 🙂

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  3. Cortez must have fancied herself one of — if not *the* — smartest bartenders in the joint. She sounds just like a stereotypical community college dropout who holds forth for the next twenty five years to her high school drop-out friends and misleads everyone about her lack of a diploma. You know the ones — who think Max Weber is somehow related to the bbq of the same name.

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  4. The whole world has an excuse to seek asylum, “Fleeing violence.” Who isn’t fleeing violence? I fled violence in Chicago and moved the hell away!

    Stand in line like everyone else.

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  5. A couple of towns over, a crackhead was arrested. Shim had 2 kids under 10 years old.

    The cops separated shim from shim’s kids to put shim into the county lockup.

    Whares the outrage? Shim was legally here and she/him is gender #36.
    Oh my!

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  6. …this is actually bad, in that AOC represents very stupid people, as most Democrats do these days. Stupid people ARE stupid, but there’s a LOT of them.

    …when a smart person shows their alpha up like this, in induces fear, confusion, and rage in them. Each one can feel the frustration of having a brain too simple to even understand the concept being discussed. They are not capable of reasoned thinking and they feel their only safety is in numbers, so they clump up against the hated smart person and decide that NOTHING is too extreme to shut down this threat to their self-esteem.

    No consideration is given to whether he makes sense or not. Fear is the only consideration.

    This is why revolutions get out of hand, like when the French guillotined all the smart people along with the inbred royals in 1789, and the Russians shot all the smart people along with THEIR inbred royals in 1917.

    It never ends well for the smart people, and the dumb ones never understand that they caused their own starvation and set the stage for their enslavement by an opportunistic tyrant.

    …there’s an old question, “In the Kingdom of the Blind, who is King?”, the answer being the one-eyed man. You could update this to “In the Kingdom of the Stupid, who is Queen?”, and the answer is AOC with just enough wit to get herself into a positon of power fron which she can be VERY dangerous.

    …smart shaming their Queen just triggers an empathetic reaction in them. Every one feels angry, and doesn’t even know WHY. Too dumb to understand.

    …history says this won’t end well.

    For ANYONE.

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  7. “…limited ports of entry and restrictions on how many can enter through even the open ports created a desperate situation for many seeking asylum.”
    Call it what it is – AN INVASION!!!

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  8. …thank you @jpm, I am humbled. I had apparently learned a distorted version of this, and did not know its source at all. Thank you for this correction, I will not make this error in future.

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