AOC tells voters worried about grocery prices to just 'wait until the farms are empty' from deportations

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., warned radical who voted based connected market prices to conscionable "wait until the farms are empty" aft wide deportations.

The Democratic lawmaker precocious addressed the Trump administration’s crackdown connected amerciable migration done thousands of arrests and deportations conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

As much raids are conducted passim the country, Ocasio-Cortez emphasized the information of losing amerciable immigrants arsenic "assets" to the United States economy.

"But let’s beryllium clear, the radical who are voting successful this mode oftentimes don’t respond to a lawsuit of compassion and humanity," Ocasio-Cortez said connected the "Latino USA" podcast connected Sunday. "And so, if you privation to beryllium hard-nosed astir it, recognize that America’s migration unit and our assemblage of immigrants, including and particularly the millions of undocumented radical successful this country, are wherefore America has prospered, particularly wherefore we survived the COVID-19 pandemic."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., appeared connected the "Latino USA" podcast connected Sunday. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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"For each of the radical who formed a ballot based connected market prices and inflation, if you deliberation your groceries are costly now, hold until the farms are empty," she continued. "If you deliberation houses are costly now, hold until there’s nary 1 gathering them. If you deliberation that having idiosyncratic successful your location to instrumentality attraction of your ailing parent oregon grandma portion you person to spell retired and gain an honorable surviving portion you’re astatine work, if you deliberation that’s costly now, hold until that migrant workforce is gone. Understand the consequences of what this means due to the fact that for America to not judge immigrants is the explanation of cutting disconnected your chemoreceptor to spite your face."

She besides criticized arguments that the medication is chiefly focused connected removing convulsive criminals.

Ocasio-Cortez lamented immoderate radical successful the Hispanic assemblage falling for "right-wing misinformation." ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

"First and foremost, this thought that radical are immigrants oregon illegal, etc… we’re talking astir ourselves. This is the cloth of our country, the cloth of our assemblage and erstwhile radical accidental ‘I deliberation it’s fine, they conscionable request to beryllium present legally,’ they’re shutting down each ineligible pathways," Ocasio-Cortez said.

Although she argued Trump has shown "hostility" towards the migrant and Latino community, Trump gained important ground among Latino voters successful the past election. Among Hispanics, helium improved his numbers by six points, reaching 41% of the demographic.

Ocasio-Cortez suggested this was owed to the Trump run dividing sects of the assemblage and "right-wing misinformation."

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"I volition archer you successful our community, the choler was little astir ‘we request to deport immigrants.’ The choler was really however the Trump medication and the run was really precise surgical and precise blase astir drafting a wedge betwixt undocumented radical and caller arrivals and asylum seekers," Ocasio-Cortez said. "That resentment exists due to the fact that of the deficiency of question connected a way to citizenship."

President Donald Trump made important gains among the Hispanic assemblage successful 2024. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

"The magnitude of misinformation that has exploded due to the fact that radical are chasing retweets of a prevarication has been truly painful," she added. "We, particularly successful presumption of societal media, are connected the platforms of billionaires. These billionaires modify these algorithms, and they wield them politically. We spot that astir explicitly with Twitter, but it is besides astatine play connected Meta, connected Facebook, etc. I deliberation it was truly hard watching radical and communities that I americium aligned with autumn for right-wing misinformation."

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