[rad-green] AOC Says Beware the Deficit Scolds Who Only Complain About Paying for Stuff When It Benefits People

*https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/28/unjust-society-far-costlier-aoc-says-beware-deficit-scolds-who-only-complain-about
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Dreams          November 28, 2019'An Unjust Society Is Far Costlier': AOC
Says Beware the Deficit Scolds Who Only Complain About Paying for Stuff
When It Benefits People"I see decisions made every day that cost the
American public billions of dollars a year for bogus reasons and nobody
asks how we pay for it."by Eoin Higgins, staff writer*

[image: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) attends Women's March 2019
on January 19, 2019 in New York City.]

*Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) attends Women's March 2019 on
January 19, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)*

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday asked voters to question why
U.S. politicians and pundits only consider the cost of government programs
when those programs help the public and least fortunate—and ignore price
tags on policies that benefit the most wealthy and powerful.

"Look out for those in politics who like to label themselves 'fiscally
responsible,' yet only seem to care about the price of justice—not the cost
of oppression."
—Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The New York Democrat made the comments on Twitter, pointing out that
members of Congress approved billions in funding for Immigration Customs
Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

"I see decisions made every day that cost the American public billions of
dollars a year for bogus reasons and nobody asks how we pay for it," said
Ocasio-Cortez.

Even though her colleagues know about ICE abuses, said Ocasio-Cortez, they
voted for funding the agency without a thought.

"I saw members voting YES without even a summary of the bill," said the
congresswoman. "Nobody cared then how we'd pay for it. Now ICE is setting
up fake universities to trap students."

Reporting Wednesday exposed how ICE used a fake university in Michigan to
entrap over 250 undocumented students since January.

Reporting from *The Detroit Free Press* indicated
<https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/11/27/ice-arrested-250-foreign-students-fake-university-metro-detroit/4277686002/>
that
the dummy school was set up solely to lure students to the U.S. and then
deport them:

The students had arrived legally in the U.S. on student visas, but since
the University of Farmington was later revealed to be a creation of federal
agents, they lost their immigration status after it was shut down in
January.
<https://www.freep.com/story/news/2019/01/30/farmington-university-immigrant-arrests/2724992002/>
The
school was located on Northwestern Highway near 13 Mile Road in Farmington
Hills and staffed with undercover agents posing as university officials.
<https://www.freep.com/story/news/2019/02/11/emails-reveal-how-university-lured-students-fake-farmington-university/2744103002/>

...

Attorneys for ICE and the Department of Justice maintain that the students
should have known it was not a legitimate university because it did not
have classes in a physical location.

*New York Times* contributor Wajahat Ali tweeted
<https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1199859713908842497> that appeals to
fiscal responsibility in government programs is a losing strategy for
Democrats.

"Bringing a calculator to a knife fight each time and losing," said Ali.

Ocasio-Cortez suggested it was a question of morality.

"Look out for those in politics who like to label themselves 'fiscally
responsible,' yet only seem to care about the price of justice—not the cost
of oppression," said the congresswoman. "Everything has a price. And an
unjust society is far costlier than one that invests in and values all
people."

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