Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, seems very worried after hearing that she could be the subject of a federal investigation for allegedly helping illegal immigrants avoid being caught by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
This week, the controversial Democrat wrote a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi asking if she was the subject of such an investigation. This was after Tom Homan, the border czar, said he had sent her to the Justice Department to be looked into for possible criminal charges.
“I’m writing to ask if the Department of Justice (DOJ) has given in to political pressure and tried to use the DOJ against elected officials whose speech they don’t agree with,” she said in her letter. “In the past two weeks, ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan has threatened to prosecute me politically on several occasions, citing materials I sent out telling my constituents and the American public about their legal and constitutional rights.