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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is condoning violent rioting in order to reach political goals.

During an interview with New York's Hot 97 earlier this week, Ocasio-Cortez argued 'marginalized' communities have no choice but to riot against their so-called oppressors.

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'I believe injustice is a threat to the safety of all people. Because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalize and marginalized...once someone doesn't have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot. And it doesn't have to be that way. I'm not even taking about Palestinians. I'm talking about communities in poverty in the United States; I'm talking about Latin America; I'm talking about all over the world,' she said.

Two weeks ago Ocasio-Cortez was asked if she condemns the violent domestic terror attack carried out by an Antifa member at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Center in Tacoma, Washington. She refused to give an answer.

The 69-year-old armed man killed by Washington state police as he attacked a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center Saturday sent a manifesto to friends the day before the assault in which he wrote 'I am Antifa,' and was being lionized by members of the leftwing group as a 'martyr.'
The group Seattle Antifascist Action described assailant Willem Van Spronsen a 'good friend and comrade' who 'took a stand against the fascist detention center in Tacoma' and 'became a martyr who gave his life to the struggle against fascism.'

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.@AOC refuses to condemn the Antifa attack on the Tacoma ICE center; refuses to tell @TheRealKeean if her inflammatory comments about “concentration camps” radicalized the attacker. pic.twitter.com/YOjn0yL032

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.

'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.'

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.

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.

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'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.

'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.

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Newsweek contacted Ocasio-Cortez for comment.