Ocasio-Cortez has also created enemies in her own party, essentially butting heads with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. All of these missteps could potentially put Ocasio-Cortez in serious jeopardy of losing her seat. Another aspect working against her is the way in which she won her seat in the first place. Many Americans have lingering resentment from the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, which caused millions of people to lose their jobs and their homes, Ocasio-Cortez said.

© Handout/DNCC/Getty Democratic New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, pictured here during the 2020 Democratic National Convention in August, has told progressive voters that supporting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is a 'tactical vote' in support of vulnerable people.

On Friday, Democratic New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told progressive voters reluctant about supporting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden that their support for him can offer 'tactical votes' in support of vulnerable communities, namely immigrants.

'I am casting this vote out of solidarity with our most marginalized and vulnerable communities,' Ocasio-Cortez told actress and activist Jane Fonda in a Fire Drill Friday interview, an ongoing series about politics and climate change sponsored by the environmental group Greenpeace.

'I don't think anyone can really look at me in the eye and genuinely tell me that immigrants who are having forced hysterectomies, who are being put in cages and camps, who are being separated from their children in some of the largest human rights violations at [a] scale that we have seen in a very long time—I don't think anyone can look me in the eye and say that they won't be better off in a Biden administration, that they won't be more protected under a Biden administration,' she said, according to The Hill.

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'This isn't always about support for the candidate,' she added, telling progressives that it's possible to criticize Biden and his policies while still supporting his election. 'We can make tactical votes.'

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Ocasio-Cortez's comments reference several aspects of Republican President Donald Trump's immigration policies at the southern U.S. border.

Her first reference alludes to a medical whistleblower's allegations in September that detainees at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Georgia were receiving unwarranted hysterectomies.

Ocasio-Cortez also referenced the detainment cells and refugee camps at the border. The online journalism organization The Marshall Project found that the number of asylum seekers in U.S. immigration centers and camps had increased under the Trump administration, leading to overcrowding and fewer resources, worsening conditions already considered inhumane by immigration advocates.

The child separations Ocasio-Cortez mentioned refer to Trump's 'zero tolerance' policy of separating thousands of undocumented immigrant children from their parents or guardians at the border.

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Though the policy began under the Obama administration, in January 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general released a report in January stating that under Obama, such family 'separations were rare and occurred because of circumstances such as the parent's medical emergency or a determination that the parent was a threat to the child's safety.'

Trump formalized the practice as part of his policy, regardless of the parent's medical status or threat to their children. A Tuesday court filing by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alleged that 545 migrant children have had not been reunited with their parents. On Wednesday, the White House claimed the parents didn't want their children back.

'Many of them have declined to accept their children back.. It's not for lack of effort on the administration's part,' White House spokesman Brian Morgenstern said, according to NBC News. Tableau des mains poker.

'The fact of the matter is the United States has engaged in a program of mass human rights violations targeting immigrants,' Ocasio-Cortez said in a September 14 tweet. 'This includes mass child separation, systemic sexual assault of people in detention, kangaroo-court procedures, & more.'

'Our country must atone for it all,' she concluded.

Newsweek contacted Ocasio-Cortez for comment.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested in a recent interview that she might not stay in politics, saying her own party thinks she’s “the enemy.”

In an interview with The New York Times over the weekend, Ocasio-Cortez was asked if she was considering a Senate run in the next couple of years. Sen. Chuck Schumer is up for re-election in 2022 and Sen. Kirsten Gilibrand in 2024.

“I genuinely don’t know,” the Democratic socialist said.

“I don’t even know if I want to be in politics. You know, for real, in the first six months of my term, I didn’t even know if I was going to run for re-election this year,” she added. “It’s the incoming. It’s the stress. It’s the violence. It’s the lack of support from your own party. It’s your own party thinking you’re the enemy.”

“But I’m serious when I tell people the odds of me running for higher office and the odds of me just going off trying to start a homestead somewhere — they’re probably the same,” Ocasio-Cortez added.

The vocal progressive also ripped the Democratic Party for targeting her while all she wants to do is help, saying she could have helped vulnerable members win.

“I’ve been begging the party to let me help them for two years. That’s also the damn thing of it. I’ve been trying to help. Before the election, I offered to help every single swing district Democrat with their operation. And every single one of them, but five, refused my help. And all five of the vulnerable or swing district people that I helped secured victory or are on a path to secure victory. And every single one that rejected my help is losing. And now they’re blaming us for their loss,” she said.

“So I need my colleagues to understand that we are not the enemy. And that their base is not the enemy. That the Movement for Black Lives is not the enemy, that Medicare for all is not the enemy. This isn’t even just about winning an argument. It’s that if they keep going after the wrong thing, I mean, they’re just setting up their own obsolescence,” she said.

Ocasio-Cortez also said, “The last two years have been pretty hostile. Externally, we’ve been winning. Externally, there’s been a ton of support, but internally, it’s been extremely hostile to anything that even smells progressive.”

On Sunday, the 31-year-old, first-term lawmaker told CNN’s Jake Tapper that she is going to be doing everything that she can to make sure Democrats win the two Senate races that have gone to a runoff in Georgia so that Democrats will have a majority in the Senate and won’t have to “negotiate” with Republicans.

“As of now, however, it looks as though Republicans, at least until January, will hold control of the Senate,” Tapper said. “That’s going to complicate your desire and the desire of other progressives for bold, sweeping, progressive legislation.”

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