Jon Stewart & AOC Take On Trump’s Comeback and Rebuilding the Democratic Party
...so you have this act that's brought forth. And Republicans say, OK, well, you know,
this person, if you have a criminal record, if you've, you know, sexually assaulted somebody,
you know, you should be deported. And so that's the guise of this bill, right?
And they said, so that should be the law. Except that's not what's in this law because, A,
that is existing US law. It is existing US law. ... But this is what the right does. They exploit these, like, very narrow individual cases. But the existing law in the United States is that if you are undocumented and you commit a crime, you are put on priority number one for deportation. That is standing US law.
Now, here's what Laken Riley does, actually, is that they use that guise to then dramatically erode constitutional rights in the United States tucked into that bill.
JON STEWART: No due process, then, for someone who is--
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: That's right. So now, in this bill, all you need to do is be accused of a crime. And you don't have to be fully undocumented. It works against Dreamers, too. So you could be here. You could have lawful, you know--
JON STEWART: So they take a narrow common sense issue, and then what they do is they expand the margins out on it to things that would not be common sense.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: This is Patriot Act all over again. This is using this guise of national security to ... erode not just the civil rights of this population, but your civil rights, too.
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