At a "Fight Oligarchy" event in Nampa, Idaho on Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke about President Trump suggesting that he would deport US citizens to foreign prisons.
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00:00Are we ready to win?
00:09That's what I thought.
00:10Thank you, thank you, thank you so, so much for welcoming me.
00:14Boise, Nampa, Idaho, thank you so, so much.
00:20And I want to take the opportunity and I want to thank, love you right back.
00:28I want to thank each and every one of you for making the effort to be here today,
00:36for taking the time to join together.
00:43You know, it's funny, I was hearing that earlier today on the television,
00:49there was someone saying, why is AOC, why is AOC Bernie going to Idaho?
00:55And I'll give you one simple answer.
01:00It's because you matter.
01:07It's because we matter.
01:09My name is Alexandria, some of you may know me as AOC, and again, from the bottom of my heart,
01:21thank you for welcoming me.
01:22You know, we're here together today because we share, all of us share in the frustration
01:33and the heartbreak that comes from watching those in power actively tear down
01:40or refuse to fight for everyday working Americans like us.
01:47And we're here together because an extreme concentration of power, greed, and corruption
01:55is taking over this country like never before.
01:59You know, it's bone chilling every day, there's something new.
02:07And today we just saw President Trump express openness to taking U.S. citizens
02:15and sending them off without due process to foreign prisons.
02:24It's anti-American.
02:29But this concentration of power, greed, and corruption is oligarchy.
02:34It's oligarchy in America.
02:37And we must acknowledge the terrifying moment that we are in right now
02:43and that what we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening.
02:50We are watching as our neighbors, students, and friends are being fired, targeted, and disappeared.
02:58This is real.
03:00People we love are being targeted and harassed just for being LGBTQ.
03:06Our workers, our co-workers, U.S. citizens, and immigrants alike are being disappeared off
03:17the street by men in vans with no uniform.
03:21Educators are being fired for teaching American people.
03:28American history accurately.
03:30And activists are being detained with no charge or evidence for using their First Amendment rights,
03:40especially if they are being used to end the war in Gaza.
03:48In fact, the Trump administration admits that it has jailed Mahmoud Khalil,
03:52a young husband and father from where I come from in New York,
03:57without any evidence or charge of a crime.
04:01They openly admit that they have thrown him in a cell thousands of miles away
04:07because he attended a protest and they did not like the content of his speech.
04:12And Donald Trump's detention of Mahmoud Khalil for his speech is anti-American, too.
04:22And we demand his release, along with the release of Rumaysa Ozturk,
04:28who he is also jailing for writing an op-ed in her school paper.
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04:45Lovely.
04:46Thank you, friend.
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