White House Border czar Tom Homan issued a warning to "Squad" member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) about continuing to help illegal immigrants evade deportation, Fox News reported. Homan said that the "tables have now turned."
Homan appeared on The Ingraham Angle Tuesday to speak out against Ocasio-Cortez and her ilk. Last week, the leftist lawmaker held a town hall event in Queens where she taunted Homan about her flippant disregard for immigration law.
This comes after her office also hosted a February "Know Your Rights" webinar to help illegal immigrants evade capture. Homan indicated he is not taking these actions lightly.
Whether she is aiming for political clout or seriously telling illegal immigrants how to break the law, Ocasio-Cortez is playing a dangerous game. Homan did not take kindly to her latest stunt and called her out on it.
"I take pleasure [that] I can live in her mind rent-free every day, but we all know exactly what she's doing. She's educating the worst of the worst [on] how do we evade law enforcement," Homan said.
"But the tables have now turned. She's educating people how to get prosecuted, because you have a final order," Homan said, referring to the last step of the legal process to deport an illegal immigrant.
"It is illegal not to comply with that order. It's a crime to take steps to... not comply with ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] removal orders or not comply with ICE actions taken in custody," Homan warned.
"You can't hinder your own removal that was ordered by the federal judge. I would like AOC to read Title 8, United States Code 1253 because it's starting tomorrow," he added.
As an elected official, Ocasio-Cortez surely knows that her role in helping lawbreakers evade capture is a crime. Still, she publicly proclaimed her intention to flout the law and help others do the same at her town hall meeting Friday.
"Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to the DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections. To that I say: Come for me, do I look like I care?" Ocasio-Cortez said.
She taunted Homan, stating that there is "nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me." However, Homan is not going to budge in this game of chicken that the two are playing.
"Game's over. We're going to look for these public safety threats, and we're going to take them off those streets in New York and every other sanctuary city," Homan said, vowing to prosecute anyone standing in the way of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Ocasio-Cortez and other leftists are brazenly encouraging others to flout immigration law because they think there will be no consequences. However, Homan doesn't seem to be a man to trifle with, and she may soon find out just how serious he is.
