Ocasio-Cortez on border tensions: Applying for refugee status isn't a crime

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Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that it's not a crime to seek refugee status, a comment that comes as tensions mount over a band of Central American migrants reaching the U.S.-Mexico border.

"Asking to be considered a refugee & applying for status isn’t a crime," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

"It wasn’t for Jewish families fleeing Germany. It wasn’t for targeted families fleeing Rwanda. It wasn’t for communities fleeing war-torn Syria. And it isn’t for those fleeing violence in Central America."

Link to tweet

Ocasio-Cortez's tweet quoted a separate one from NBC News that featured a photograph of migrants running from a border crossing after U.S. border agents fired tear gas.

https://thehill.com/latino/418167-ocasio-cortez-on-border-tensions-applying-for-refugee-status-isnt-a-crime

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Only in Nazi America is it a crime

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2. A big Thank You, AOC.