(PM.) New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the Biden administration needs to give New York City more taxpayer money for taking care of illegal immigrants and that the US should accept every single border crosser and immediately make them citizens at a town hall meeting in the Bronx on Wednesday night.
According to the New York Post, AOC said, “those federal resources should come to New York City, and those federal dollars should come to places that want to take care of people, and we need that financial support.”
Biden’s border crisis has seen a record-high number of illegal immigrants pouring into the United States, with more than two million encounters occurring across the 2022 fiscal year. As border crossers pour into the US it has sparked a humanitarian crisis that has led to historic drug and human trafficking.
“If we don’t want people here illegally then we should document them,” AOC shouted at a retired firefighter who asked, “We have foreign nationals by the millions pouring in illegally, flooding our country. You are a member of Congress. Writing our immigration laws… What will you do with the immigration law to secure the southern border?”
The firefighter also noted that 95 percent of the illegal aliens are economic migrants, which are those heading into the US for better paying jobs than their native country.
