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struggle4progress

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2. He picked the wrong Latina
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 09:16 PM
Feb 2025

Jennifer Bowers Bahney
February 20, 2025 11:23AM ET

President Donald Trump's "border Czar" Tom Homan, who has been tasked with deporting millions of undocumented migrants from the United States, made an enemy out of "the wrong Latina" when he went after Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), argued MSNBC columnist Julio Ricardo Varela.

Homan has repeatedly made a point of threatening AOC with a Justice Department investigation for hosting a webinar to teach undocumented migrants how to respond if they're confronted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The webinar is titled, "Know Your Rights," but Homan has suggested its purpose is to "impede law enforcement" from doing its job.

Varela wrote, "In multiple media appearances, Homan insulted her intelligence, mocked her credentials and claimed she was undermining law enforcement. And he said he was 'working with the Department of Justice' to see whether the congresswoman was 'crossing the line.'”

AOC wrote on social media Monday, “This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail & call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else" ...

https://www.rawstory.com/tom-homan-vs-aoc/

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