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0Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is maybe “gonna be in trouble” for informing her constituents about their Constitutional rights, “Border Czar” Tom Homan said on Fox News.
I sent an email today to the deputy attorney general. At what level is that impediment? Is that impediment? I’m not an attorney; I’m not a prosecutor. Is that impediment? Is that impeding our law enforcement efforts? If so, what are we gonna do about it? Is she crossing the line? So, I’m working with the Department of Justice and finding out. Where is that line that they cross? So, maybe AOC’s gonna be in trouble now.
AOC held a webinar on how to respond if ICE comes to your door, part of a comprehensive collection of immigration resources for her constituents, centered on her website.
Several news sites that I won’t link are calling this informing “illegal migrants” how to avoid ICE. Now, ICE isn’t going to come to my door–this is an anonymous blog! And also I’m white–but some of AOC’s constituents who are American citizens should be just as interested in what their rights are if ICE comes knocking. Not that the intended audience matters in terms of whether this is all First Amendment 101 material.
Apparently, this particular issue is a problem for Homan.
The backstory here is that Homan has complained about such information sessions before. In a recent interview on CNN, he specifically decried “know your rights” efforts, saying that such campaigns have made enforcement of Trump’s immigration plans more difficult.
“They call it ‘know your rights’; I call it ‘how to escape arrest,’” Homan said.
Everybody should be keenly interested in how to avoid arrest. Shouldn’t they?