AOC and progressive Democrats tear into Biden's border plan trends now
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and several House and Senate Democrats tore into Joe Biden for his new migrant policies by claiming he is 'resurrecting' Trump-era border protocols and making it 'impossible' for immigrants to seek asylum.
A group of nearly 80 lawmakers sent a letter to President Biden condemning his expansion of the use of the pandemic-era expulsion policy known as Title 42, as well as implementing new bans on asylum-seekers.
The effort was led by Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker as well as Representative Ocasio-Cortez, known colloquially as AOC.
'There can be no confusing the Biden administration's immigration policy with the Trump administration's, but doing better than Trump shouldn't be the bar,' AOC said outside the Capitol on Thursday at a podium with a sign reading: '#AsylumIsARight'
Booker also compared Biden's asylum policies at the southern border to Jews on the 'Voyage of the Damned' who were turned away from the U.S. when fleeing the Holocaust by ship during World War II.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined several other lawmakers who filtered in an out of a press conference on border policies. AOC slammed President Joe Biden for his new proposals to handle migration and said 'doing better than Trump shouldn't be the bar'
'We have dark chapters,' Booker said. 'Like when the St. Louis during the Holocaust sailed to our shores and was turned around where folks were sent back to those horrors and many died,' he noted.
The group of more than a half dozen Democrats took turns speaking about border policies at the anti-Title 42 press conference, and vowed to 'hold Biden accountable' even though they are part of the same
