Ocasio-Cortez on Homan insult: 'This is why you fight these cowards'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shot back at President Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan on Monday after he insulted her intelligence.

Homan, in an interview Monday with Newsmax's Rob Finnerty, called the New York Democrat “the dumbest congresswoman ever [elected] to … Congress, and she proves that every day.”

“And look, bottom line is, I can’t believe … any member of Congress, Republican, Democrat, independent, would want to educate criminal illegal aliens who are in the country illegally, been convicted of a violent crime and had been ordered removed by an immigration judge after due process at great taxpayer expense,” Homan continued.

He added, “You got a … congresswoman that does not want ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] to do the job that Congress has mandated them to do, and funds them to do."

Ocasio-Cortez responded to the comments in a post on the social platform X.

“This is why you fight these cowards,” she wrote. “The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.”

“He can threaten me with jail & call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else,” the lawmaker added.

Homan in a separate interview on Fox News said he asked the Justice Department whether Ocasio-Cortez's efforts to teach people about their rights while dealing with ICE is impeding its operations.

“You can claim you [are] educating [them about] constitutional rights,” Homan said on Fox News, also saying, “But what she is, in fact, doing is telling people, ‘Don’t open the door, hide in your home, don’t talk to ICE.'”

“We are talking about people who are in the country illegally [and have] committed a crime. They are public safety threats,” Homan added.

The border czar previously suggested the lawmaker could be "in trouble" due to her advice about constitutional rights, which Ocasio-Cortez later mocked.

The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.

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