'ICE Is Breaking The Law': AOC Details Claims That ICE Is Engaged In Criminal Actions

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At today's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) questioned sanctuary state governors.

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00:00Mr. Chairman, I want to ask unanimous consent.

00:03Mr. Acasio-Cortez from New York.

00:05All right, well, that was some kind of bingo going on over there.

00:09I don't know what's going on.

00:10Anyways.

00:11Oh, I know what's going on.

00:13So thank you to the witnesses for coming here today.

00:17I apologize for the treatment that the three of you, four of you, have been subjected to.

00:22And Governor Walz, I just have to say, I know you're getting a lot of grief from the majority here,

00:27but, you know, we are talking about individuals who have cheered on an individual who issued

00:38a Nazi salute from behind the presidential seal of the United States of America, who have

00:45cheered on the pardoning of individuals who attacked the United States Capitol and flew

00:53a Nazi flag and the flag of the Confederacy, traitors to the United States, sworn enemies

01:01of the United States of America through the Capitol of this nation.

01:06And now they want to act offended because someone has the courage to say, if it walks like a duck

01:17and it talks like a duck, maybe it's a duck.

01:22So I want to thank you for not wavering to their bullying, which is unconscionable and sad

01:33to see.

01:33So I just wanted to let you know that, Governor.

01:36Thank you, Congressman.

01:38To the three of you, Governor Walz, Governor Pritzker, and Governor Hochul, you three have

01:44each sworn an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, correct?

01:50I'll start with you.

01:51Yes.

01:52Yes, ma'am.

01:54Yes, I have.

01:55And I imagine that also includes the Fourth and Fifth Amendment protections for due process

02:00and the rule of law.

02:02It does.

02:03Sure does.

02:04Yes.

02:04And that means protecting your people in your states, U.S. citizens and every individual,

02:18because that is what makes America great, that we are a land of the free and of rule

02:25of law, to protect them from infringements of their civil liberties, correct?

02:31Correct?

02:33Now, what we are seeing is a pattern where ICE is breaking the law.

02:43We have the detention of a U.S. citizen who has been detained by immigration officials.

02:50We have ICE here that has also blamed and arrested U.S. citizens for being simply suspected of being

02:59an immigrant largely because of their appearance.

03:01In January, a Chicago-based, U.S.-born citizen, Julio Noriega, was arrested by ICE and held

03:07in custody for over 10 hours.

03:09In April, a Florida Highway Patrol officer pulled over Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez, a United States-born

03:16citizen, and arrested him on suspicion of being in the country illegally.

03:21He had his real ID, his social security card, his mother presented his birth certificate,

03:25and they still didn't let him go.

03:28In May, U.S. citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas was filming an ICE raid.

03:32He was arrested by ICE.

03:34In May, a veteran and U.S. citizen who is Puerto Rican,

03:40Puerto Rican, was detained during an ICE raid at his workplace in New York City.

03:47That's called a paper bag test.

03:49And your job, Governor Hochul, is to protect people from that kind of infringement, correct?

04:01Yes.

04:02Because all of us must adhere to the law, and no one is above it.

04:08So if a U.S. citizen tries to break the law, or if an ICE officer tries to break the law,

04:13your job is to uphold the law, correct?

04:15We absolutely uphold the laws of the United States Constitution and the Constitution of

04:19the State of New York.

04:20And sanctuary states are about U.S. citizens as well having sanctuary against the attacks

04:30on our constitutional rights from illegal search and seizure.

04:36There is nothing preventing ICE from issuing a warrant and you having complete compliance

04:41with their request.

04:42Correct, Governor Hochul?

04:43Well, we comply in cases where there's been a criminal activity allege.

04:48Yes, we always do.

04:49But we're not involved in civil immigration enforcement because our state police that I

04:54control have to deal with other crimes that they're solving.

04:57And apologies, I just have 10 seconds left.

04:59But when they say illegal versus legal immigration, they are trying to end legal status in the United

05:04States as well, correct, Governor Pritzker, with the end of TPS and making people undocumented

05:09by removing legal status, ending legal status, and then having the audacity to call them illegal

05:16when they were here documented, correct?

05:18Taking students' visas away from people, taking their legal right to be in the United States

05:23away from them when they've been granted maybe years earlier to stay.

05:27So I don't want to hear about how this is about illegal versus legal immigration.

05:32They are attacking legal status and removing legal status.

05:36The Republican majority is anti-legal immigration in the United States.

05:41And I want to make that very clear.

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