AOC taunts Tom Homan after DOJ referral threat over deportations: 'Come for me'

QUEENS, N.Y. – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., threw down the gauntlet to Tom Homan connected Friday aft the borderline czar antecedently threatened to notation her to the Justice Department for giving proposal to migrants connected however to debar being deported. 

Ocasio-Cortez told attendees astatine a Queens municipality hallway lawsuit that she was not acrophobic of the migration hardliners’ words successful the aftermath of her bureau hosting a "Know your Rights" webinar successful February. Homan has suggested her actions mightiness beryllium amerciable and whitethorn impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from carrying retired the Trump administration's wide deportations. 

"Tom Homan said helium was going to notation maine to DOJ due to the fact that I’m utilizing my escaped code rights successful bid to counsel radical of their law protections. To that I say: Come for me, bash I look similar I care?" Ocasio-Cortez told a cheering crowd.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaking astatine a municipality hallway successful Queens, left, and Tom Homan. (David Dee Delgado/Getty, Jim WATSON / AFP, right.)

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Ocasio-Cortez asserted that determination was "nothing amerciable astir it and if they privation to marque it illegal, they tin travel instrumentality me."

In February, Ocasio-Cortez’s bureau hosted a unrecorded webinar advising migrants successful her territory astir their rights if they travel look to look looking to deport them.

People were besides recommended to grounds searches if ICE came calling and however to differentiate betwixt antithetic warrants ICE agents are apt to carry.

That led to Homan suggesting the New York Democrat could beryllium crossing a line.

"I'm moving with the Department of Justice and uncovering out. Where is that enactment that they cross? So possibly AOC is going to beryllium successful occupation now," helium said aft the event.

"What she needs to bash is work the statutes enacted by Congress… due to the fact that it's a transgression to participate this state illegally," the Trump borderline czar said separately connected "Sunday Morning Futures." 

Tom Homan, White House borderline czar, said successful February that the lawmaker whitethorn person crossed a line. (Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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"Not lone that, but erstwhile you harbor and conceal and impede instrumentality enforcement, that's a felony," helium said. "What she's doing, she says she's educating everybody connected their law rights, and we each cognize they've got law rights, but what she's truly doing… she's trying to thatch them however to evade instrumentality enforcement."

Ocasio-Cortez connected Friday besides attacked the Trump administration's attack to borderline information and immigration, referring to its deportation of Venezuelan pack members arsenic "sanctioned kidnappings."

"I don't adjacent privation to telephone them deportations. They are sanctioned kidnappings successful galore circumstances," the congresswoman told attendees. "They bash not person carte blanche to enter. If they bash privation to sound connected your door, oregon sound connected anyone's doorway — including your workplace — you tin archer them, ‘Show maine a warrant. Show maine a judicial warrant.’ And if they don't amusement you a warrant, you tin accidental they tin travel backmost with a warrant. You person the close to crook them away."

Ocasio-Cortez was speaking to a packed auditorium afloat of hundreds of attendees. Those who couldn’t get successful sat successful an overflow country crossed the hall. 

An attendee shouts astatine Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a municipality hallway gathering astir her stance connected the Israel/Palestine struggle connected May 2, 2025, successful New York City.  (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Attendees gave the progressive lawmaker a lukewarm reception and, barroom 1 disruptor, appeared afloat supportive of her legislative docket and her practice of the territory to date. Many questions from the assemblage centered astir section issues, calls for a minimum wage hike, however to amended aerial quality, arsenic good arsenic asking her however she plans connected tackling the Trump administration. 

The loudest applause came erstwhile Ocasio-Cortez voiced her absorption to a projected caller casino astatine Citi Field, which would beryllium portion of a caller sports and amusement park. It has gotten support from the New York City Council, though the congresswoman said she doesn’t person a accidental successful the substance since it’s a authorities contented arsenic good arsenic not being successful her district.

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The lawsuit was mostly uneventful but for an aboriginal disruption by a protester who began shouting astatine Ocasio-Cortez astir the "genocide" successful Gaza. 

"I americium a healthcare worker and I privation to cognize what you're doing astir the genocide successful Gaza," the protester started shouting astatine the congresswoman.

"Shame! Shame! Shame!" the assemblage began shouting astatine the disruptor. Audible "boos" could beryllium heard arsenic good earlier she was yet led retired by security.

Fox News’ Alec Schemmel and Taylor Penney contributed to this report.