Border Czar Tom Homan clashed with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Friday saying the congresswoman might be “impeding” federal immigration officials’ efforts to arrest illegal migrants by offering them advice on how to avoid deportation.
On Wednesday, the office of the representative from New York’s 14th congressional district hosted a “Know Your Rights” webinar detailing tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials used to arrest illegal immigrants in an effort to help them avoid deportation. “ICE raids are political tactics, and they’re often intended to create fear,” Genia Blaser, a lawyer with the Immigrant Defense Project, claimed during the presentation streamed by the Bronx-Queens rep’s office.
“We see how ICE often uses rhetoric to criminalize immigrants, to normalize their tactics and justify what they’re doing,” she added, describing encounters between migrants and ICE as “often very aggressive.”
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