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Trump border czar fires back at AOC over DOJ probe remarks: 'Why doesn't she pass some legislation?'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was ripped by border czar Tom Homan after questioning whether the DOJ will indeed go after her over a webinar meant to help migrants deal with ICE.


Trump border czar fires back at AOC over DOJ probe remarks: 'Why doesn't she pass some legislation?'
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The DOJ did not respond to an earlier related inquiry on the matter.

"I'm doing my job: the border is secure. We arrested three times more criminals than [former President Joe] Biden did. We're doing our job. She should try doing her job."

"Yes," he added when asked if they should face censure or removal of their committee assignments.

Another reporter followed up by asking about a specific warning from Ocasio-Cortez on the matter.

"You lay a finger on [New Jersey Congresswoman] Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the representatives that were there - you lay a finger on them, and we're going to have a problem," Ocasio-Cortez said on Instagram.

Homan was on Capitol Hill Wednesday at the invitation of Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, to speak with his large House GOP group about immigration and border security.

Three Democratic members of Congress from New Jersey - Coleman, Robert Menendez and LaMonica McIver - joined protesters and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this week outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark. Baraka was notably arrested at the site.

In response to that question about AOC's warning, Homan turned around and laughed loudly before quipping, "I'm extremely intimidated."

At the time of her first brush with Homan over the webinar, Ocasio-Cortez told a Queens town hall crowd, "I'm using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections. To that I say: 'Come for me, do I look like I care?'"

The Democratic trio, along with party leaders, have consistently argued that the lawmakers had a right to be at Delaney Hall as federal officials. Republicans, meanwhile, are mulling possible consequences.

Fox News Digital's Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.

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