Ocasio Cortez Cries

Posted : admin On 8/2/2022

Maybe she was sad about the lack of migrant kids available for a photo op?

That’s the question we’re asking after finding new photos of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at a border entry gate days before she won the Democratic primary.

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Photographer Ivan Pierre Aguirre recently posted pictures from AOC’s trip to the border last year, which depict the congresswoman crying, presumably at the sight of nearby migrant children being inhumanely detained.

“Before @AOC hit the national stage & was just a fairly unknown House candidate frm NYC,she took time awy frm her campaign & came dwn to #Tornillo to protest the #tentcity housing migrant children.” Aguirre wrote on Twitter. “I made these previously unpublished fotos a yr ago today.”

AOC helped bring the photos international attention after writing of the images: “I’ll never forget this, because it was the moment I saw with my own eyes that the America I love was becoming a nation that steals refugee children from their parents,& caged them.”

“More kids died after this,” she added. “To date, no one has been held accountable. We need to save these kids.”

Here’s the original tweet from Aguirre:

And here is AOC suggesting she’s sobbing at the sight of migrant children being detained:

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Grabien News searched Getty Images’ archive and located alternate-angle photos from this same event. The images, seen below, indicate AOC was crying at the sight of … a mostly empty lot.

Getty photographer Joe Raedle also did not mention migrant children being visible. Here’s his description of the photos: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands at the Tornillo-Guadalupe port of entry gate on June 24, 2018 in Tornillo, Texas. She is part of a group protesting the separation of children from their parents after they were caught entering the U.S. under the administration's zero tolerance policy.”

While detention facilities exist on the property, they don’t appear to be within eyeshot of AOC’s vantage point, at least not close enough to see children “caged” as she describes. In both directions the nearest building is barely visible.

Perhaps that explains the tears. With a limited campaign budget, AOC didn’t have a lot of room for missed photo-op.


UPDATE: Snopes, the left-leaning fact-checking site, has now confirmed Grabien News’ report.

Snopes actually claims they’ve debunked the report, but their investigation in fact does the opposite. As reported above, both the photographer who re-surfaced the photos as well as AOC suggested the images depict her crying at the sight of nearby “caged” children. Snopes spoke with the photographer, who confirms that’s not the case:

Given that the detention of immigrant children has become a major point of national controversy, and that the obsession with Ocasio-Cortez among right-leaning media outlets has been fairly constant since her surprise election to represent New York’s 14th district in 2018, it’s perhaps no surprise that dissecting the pictures for signs of alleged malfeasance became a new internet pastime.

“The pictures were ridiculed particularly as there was no sight of actual migrant children during the protest,” Fox News reported.

That’s no surprise, Aguirre told us. The roadway leading to the encampment was closed off to news media and protesters. “Obviously,” he said, “there weren’t kids two feet away.”

Further confirming Grabien News’ account, Aguirre provided another photo depicting the roadway that leads to where the housing facility is. The photo, below, makes clear there were no children within eyeshot of the protesters.

Aguirre, using powers unavailable to mere mortals, said AOC would have broken down in tears even if he hadn’t been there capturing the photo-op.

“It was just a genuine, found moment,” he told Snopes. “If we [the news media] weren’t there she still would have broken down, I think. She could see the entrance to the camps out in the distance.”


Editor’s Note: This marks Snopes’ third failed attempt at fact-checking Grabien News.

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— In 2016, we reported on a video from then Sen. Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign in which he appears to be flaunting an erection. Snopes attempted a fact check, but admitted they could not decisively determine the future president’s pecker was indeed flaccid.

— In 2017, Grabien News reported Roger Goodell was violating the NFL’s rules in allowing players to kneel during the National Anthem. Snopes proclaimed our report untrue, but after we presented the reporter with the league’s operations manual, Snopes updated their description of the story from “false” to “mixture.”

Late this week, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was slammed online after implying that she was a hard worker while Republicans just “sit around on leather chairs all day.”

Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter, “the thing that these conservative Senators don’t seem to understand is that I’ve actually had a physically difficult working-class job without good healthcare most of my adult life,”

She then continued by saying that she bring this work ethic to her community and to the Congress while they “sit around on leather chairs all day,” referring to Republicans.

— NRCC (@NRCC) December 4, 2020

She also added that Republicans like to make fun of her for the fact that she used to work as a waitress. However, she claimed, everyone knows that if ever the Republicans were asked to do a double job, she said, “they’d be the ones found crying in the walk-in fridge halfway through their first shift bc someone yelled at them for bringing seltzer when they wanted sparkling.”

Due to these remarks, Ocasio-Cortez immediately received a push back from Republicans and conservatives, noting that most people have physically demanding careers when they were younger.

This is wrong.

Ocasio-cortez Crying At Border Images

I was a waitress for 5+ years throughout high school and college. I am a Republican and I cried in walk-in fridges just like you.

The difference between us? I don’t expect the gvt to provide for me. I make my own $ and provide for myself. https://t.co/NHMxhkSkkp

— Kasey Lovett (@lovett_kasey) December 4, 2020

Press Secretary for Ben Carson, Kasey Lovett wrote on Twitter, “This is wrong. I was a waitress for more than five years and throughout college and high school.” She then added saying, “I am a Republican and I cried in walk-in fridges just like you. The difference between us? I don’t expect the government to provide for me. I make my own $ and provide for myself.”

Meanwhile, the National Republican Congressional Committee trolled Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that Republicans were just “sitting around on leather chairs all day” by posting on Twitter photographs over her doing just that.

Congressman-elect Burgess Owens also responded, “You used to be a waitress, I was a chimney sweep. Both stand as a testament to the great opportunity we have in America. The difference is, as conservatives, we believe ‘if I can do it you can do it’ and are fighting to make sure that never changes.”

You used to be a waitress, I was a chimney sweep. Both stand as a testament to the great opportunity we have in America. The difference is, as conservatives we believe 'if I can do it you can do it' and are fighting to make sure that never changes. https://t.co/14cLf1ozRV

— Burgess Owens (@BurgessOwens) December 4, 2020

Another Republican proved Ocasio-Cortez wrong, Daily Caller editor Virginia Kruta, who responded with a tweet saying, “I spent my first week in the Army on 4 hours of sleep a night and a sprained ankle, digging one hole to fill in the hole I had just dug the hour before. Cry me a river (‘cuz I didn’t).”

Representative Kevin Hern (R-OK) also took it on twitter and wrote that he had been flipping burgers full time while writing code and farming on his spare time. Hern also added that several of his colleagues have the same story.

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Congresswoman-elect Mary Miller also responded with Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet saying “Hey, @AOC , if you don’t mind getting your $58 sweater dirty and can handle the cow farts, I’ll show you how we work on the farm.”

Ocasio-cortez Cries At Parking Lot

Hey, @AOC, if you don't mind getting your $58 sweater dirty and can handle the cow farts, I'll show you how we work on the farm. https://t.co/D2P8BgbLXf

— Mary Miller for Congress (@Miller_Congress) December 4, 2020

Allie Beth Stuckey, Conservative commentator also took it on Twitter and wrote, saying that she is “confused” as to why Ocasio-Cortez thinks there are no working-class Republicans who had a much harder life than she had. Emphasizing that there are Republicans who experienced that same.

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Meanwhile, Curtis Houck, managing Editor of NewsBusters also responded that sadly, there are a number of lefties who have the same belief as Ocasio-Cortez, despite the fact that conservatives and Republicans in their families and classes did not grew up in places of “wealth and prestige.”

Houck also added by saying, “it grinds my gears knowing people who’ve known us our whole lives believe we’re only rich, white, privileged loons.”

Afghanistan war veteran and Texas Representative Dan Crenshaw, who lost an eye in service of the U.S.

Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) an Afghanistan war veteran who lost an eye during service also slammed Ocasio-Cortez for complaining about the “physically difficult” job she was complaining about waitressing. Crenshaw fired back by saying, “We ‘republican elites’ who fought in the mountains of Afghanistan will just go ahead and check our privilege.”