Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blamed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for a sudden increase of illegal immigrants entering the U.S., claiming that his sanctions against the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela caused the surge.
AOC made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on “Face The Nation” when asked to further elaborate on her recent remarks that she believes “immigration is arguably [the Biden] Administration’s weakest issue.”
The congresswoman responded by claiming former President Donald Trump “dramatically inflamed” the issue. She then pivoted to saying 500,000 Venezuelans who recently flooded into the U.S. needed to be given a pathway to citizenship because that would “reduce the strain on our public systems,” and went on to blame Rubio.
“I think we also need to examine the root of this problem, because if we are constantly engaging in foreign policy that drives people to our southern border in this specific instance, U.S….