Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi to clarify if she is under investigation after border czar Tom Homan recommended an investigation into AOC for aiding illegal immigrants.
In early February, AOC's office held a ‘Know Your Rights’ webinar, offering constituents guidance on how to interact with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Of course, this description isn't remotely correct as this webinar was directed at illegal immigrants, who are not AOC's constituents.
Furthermore, the advice offered to these illegal immigrants could be categorized as advising these illegal immigrants on how to evade ICE agents who are conducting mass deportation operations.
This 'Know Your Rights' webinar was so blatantly crossing a line that it led to Border Czar Tom Homan to call on the Trump administration to open an investigation, but so far, it appears that no official investigation has been launched.
AOC has framed Homan's calls for an investigation as "political" and claimed that Homan is threatening her 1st Amendment rights as an elected official.
Apparently, AOC believes that aiding and abetting illegal immigrants with information on how to evade law enforcement is protected by the 1st Amendment. It's hard to imagine that her argument will hold up in court should the Department of Justice look into this situation.
In a press release on Friday, AOC stated, "I write to request clarity on whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) has yielded to political pressure and attempts to weaponize the agency against elected officials whose speech they disagree with. Over the past two weeks, 'Border Czar' Tom Homan has gone on multiple forums threatening political prosecution against me, citing resources I distributed informing my constituents and the American public of their constitutional and legal rights."
She went on to further claim, "Mr. Homan’s repeated attempts to use your agency to politically intimidate duly elected officials are a textbook threat to the right to free speech in the United States. Threatening criminal proceedings for exercising the First Amendment is itself a violation of the First Amendment."
Naturally, the question is what "resources" did AOC distribute to her "constituents" in this webinar. For starters, in a post to X, AOC said, "Citizen or not, we all should know our rights to protect ourselves and others from illegal search & seizure."
That post was one of many in which she grouped both citizens and non-citizens together, making it clear that she's not just informing her constituents of their rights but is intentionally teaching illegal immigrants how to evade deportation.
The ball is in the Trump administration's court now, with Attorney General Bondi holding the power to press forward with an investigation that would send a message to radical Democrats about aiding illegal immigrants.
For too long, Democrat politicians from the local, state, and national levels have gotten away with ignoring immigration law, with entire Democrat cities and even states actively working against immigration enforcement to protect illegal immigrants.
So far, there has been no announcement from the DOJ on this situation, but that indicates that the DOJ is keeping quiet while putting together the facts of the case before making an official decision.
This will be an important story to keep an eye on as President Donald Trump has sworn to be tougher than ever on illegal immigration and that force must be applied to those Americans who protect these illegal immigrants from being lawfully deported.
