Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-NY), was harassed by hecklers while speaking at an event in Queens last week.
“My name is Jonathan David Rinaldi and I’m running for Congress against AOC, the Green New Deal is a scam,” one heckler shouted.
“They’re giving the NYCHA apartments away, they’re giving illegal aliens $10,000 a day… I want you to debate me AOC, debate me.”
NYCHA, the New York City Housing Authority, is an agency that oversees the city’s public housing projects and Rinaldi reported to Fox News that he believes lawmakers are trying to move illegal immigrants into the developments at the expense of citizens.
“Secure the border now,” another man yelled at the congresswoman.
“You haven’t said one word about violent Venezuelan migrants, illegals.”
“You don’t care, all you care about is illegal aliens and their votes. You don’t care about your constituents.”
“That’s all you care about, you’re a disgrace.”
“We have seen the voices that are anti-immigrant in this country are very very loud but they are very very few and we have to look around and realize how many of us are here in support of our neighbors and an acknowledgment of the fact that virtually all of us are descendants of immigrants, or indigenous people, or enslaved people,” Ocasio-Cortez said during the event.
