AOC Says the Migrant Crisis Is ‘a False Narrative’ Pushed by Conservatives and Xenophobes

Ocasio-Cortez: “The idea that Republicans, in order to win an election, say, ‘We need to hermetically seal the border,’ when they know that would be — that is economic self-sabotage to the U.S. economy, and they are saying, ‘Let’s do it anyway,’ and to compensate for the negative effects, we are going to allow and throw people’s kids into factories, that is what they are doing in rolling back child labor laws while being as xenophobic and anti-immigrant as they are and while ginning up this false narrative about this being a crisis. And by the way, by them also preventing and blocking any legislation that would provide not just a path to citizenship, but a path to work papers, a path to allowing people who want to work to be paired with American businesses who need people to work. And, I mean, there is not only no moral calculation. There is no economic calculation. There is no logical calculation. There is only a political calculation. And that political calculation is, ‘We are going to keep whining about it, we are going to keep pretending this is a crisis, while contributing to actual problems. And then we are going to block the solution so that we can campaign on it over and over and over. And we can call it caravans, we can call it migrant crises, we can call it family separation.’ And they will just recycle it over and over and over again in order to gin up just so much animosity and destruction in this country, and racism in this country, because that’s the only thing that the Republican Party even is standing on at this point.”