{"id":2779,"date":"2023-06-03T20:45:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T20:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2023-06-03T20:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T20:45:36","slug":"american-citizens-before-migrants-aoc-hammered-at-town-hall-on-illegal-immigration-debt-ceiling-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/03\/american-citizens-before-migrants-aoc-hammered-at-town-hall-on-illegal-immigration-debt-ceiling-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018American Citizens Before Migrants!\u2019 AOC Hammered at Town Hall on Illegal Immigration, Debt Ceiling &#038; War in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a town hall event in Queens, New York on Friday night, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) encountered a group of outraged constituents who took issue with the socialist Democrat congresswoman on several issues.<\/p>\n<p>Some community members in attendance took issue with Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s stances on illegal immigration, raising the debt ceiling, and her support for ongoing U.S. funding for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>One attendee, wearing a shirt with a Cuban flag and holding an American flag, approached the stage, shouting, \u201cAmerican citizens before migrants!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AOC brutally heckled into CHAOS at her OWN Town Hall in deep-blue NYC over migrant crisis, Ukraine war: &quot;American Citizens Before Migrants!&quot;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AQb59CHgVz\">pic.twitter.com\/AQb59CHgVz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1663560653486030849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As security escorted the man out of the hall, he continued to voice his dissatisfaction, exclaiming, \u201cWhere are you on the migrant issue? You\u2019re absent!\u201d Before leaving, he added, \u201cYou\u2019re a piece of s***!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident was met with a scoff from the congresswoman. But she faced further heated opposition throughout the evening.<\/p>\n<p>During a discussion about debt-ceiling negotiations between the White House and Republican leaders, Ocasio-Cortez expressed her support for eliminating the debt limit in the United States. Her remark garnered a mix of cheers and boos from the audience. One attendee expressed frustration, pointing out that Ocasio-Cortez simultaneously supports substantial funding for Ukraine, stating, \u201cYou voted for $100 billion for Ukraine!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was interrupted by someone else in the crowd who claimed it wasn\u2019t his turn to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Additional attendees at the town hall displayed signs with messages such as \u201cAmerica First: Vetted &amp; Legal Migrants Only,\u201d \u201cStop Funding Ukraine,\u201d \u201cAOC Stop Crying,\u201d and \u201cAOC An Obvious Criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Ocasio-Cortez has faced criticism for her support of funding Ukraine. In a previous town hall event in October, she was confronted by individuals accusing her of supporting nuclear war and playing with the lives of American citizens.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Noggatone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Noggatone<\/a> and I confronted Congresswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AOC<\/a> on her support for Nuclear War and Ukrainian Nazis. I call her out for being a coward in the face of the party that will push us all into Nuclear war right now. Will she stand up like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TulsiGabbard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TulsiGabbard<\/a> and fight for peace? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aQiQvQSWIN\">pic.twitter.com\/aQiQvQSWIN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jose Vega \u2014 Vote Diane Sare! (@JosBtrigga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JosBtrigga\/status\/1580364662419312641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongresswoman, none of this matters unless there\u2019s a nuclear war, which you voted to send arms and weapons to Ukraine,\u201d the first protester said. \u201cTulsi Gabbard, she\u2019s left the Democratic Party because they\u2019re a bunch of war hawks! Okay? You originally voted \u2014 you ran as an outsider, yet you\u2019ve been voting to start this war in Ukraine. You\u2019re voting to start a third nuclear war with Russia and China. Why are you playing with the lives of American citizens? You\u2019re playing with our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no neighbors if there\u2019s a nuclear bomb! You voted to mobilize and send money to Ukrainian Nazis! You\u2019re a coward! You\u2019re a progressive socialist? Where are you against the war mobilization?\u201d a second protester added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s telling the right truth!\u201d another chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have done nothing,\u201d the second protester said. \u201cTulsi Gabbard has shown guts where you showed cowardice! I believed in you and you became the very thing you sought to fight against. That\u2019s what you\u2019ve become! You are the establishment and you are the reason why everybody will end up in a nuclear war unless you choose to stand up right now and denounce the Democratic Party. Will you do that? Yes or no?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, simple: Are you going to stop nuclear war, yes or no?\u201d the protester responded to AOC\u2019s inaudible answer. \u201cThere is no line, because this is bullsh*t! None of this matters if we\u2019re all dead. None of it! You know that! Then let\u2019s take it up right now, because this is the only thing that matters. This is the only thing that matters right now. We could be in a nuclear war at any minute and you continue to fund it. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on. Why not right now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re the liar here,\u201d he went on. \u201cNobody has held you accountable. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening. And it is time for you to stand up and realize that what you\u2019ve been saying have been lies. Let your conscience come through for once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Kyle Becker on Twitter\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylenabecker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>@kylenabecker<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a town hall event in Queens, New York on Friday night, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) encountered a group of outraged constituents who took issue with the socialist Democrat congresswoman on several issues. Some community members in attendance took issue with Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s stances on illegal immigration, raising the debt ceiling, and her support for ongoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}