'Dismantling these agencies and the lies about immigrants they’ve engendered will have to be a mainstream political project, or else it won’t work.' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knows exactly what's wrong with the Department of Homeland Security
criticisms of his immigration policy like Gutiérrez’s were seen as a step too far; both in bad taste and not based in fact. the tactic of disruptive protest—of meeting the crisis with the urgency it demanded—was not.
It’s clear that Ocasio-Cortez has a slightly easier time criticizing the commander-in-chief, given that he’s a Republican and a virulent racist, but she also speaks with the same sense of clarity that got Gutiérrez in trouble.
Listening to Ocasio-Cortez, it’s clear that she believes today’s Congress can chart the path to undoing the harm that the Trump, Obama, Bush, and Clinton administrations have caused with their immigration policies, rather than wait for the next Democratic president to use executive action to simply “undo” whatever Trump did. She understands the real problem here, which is that CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have long been allowed to operate with impunity.
None of this goes away without dedicated organizing, and a willingness to name hard truths. Dismantling these agencies and the lies about immigrants they’ve engendered will have to be a mainstream political project, or else it won’t work. When Ocasio-Cortez speaks, she’s deliberately building towards that, offering a space for her colleagues to join a morally focused, justice-minded fight for migrants’ rights.
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