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© Handout/DNCC/Getty Democratic New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, pictured here during the 2020 Democratic National Convention in August, has told progressive voters that supporting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is a 'tactical vote' in support of vulnerable people.

Our staff is currently working remotely. You can contact our team by calling 718-662-5970, Monday-Friday from 9 AM - 5 PM. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 28, 2021. At least one participant in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol reportedly made violent threats against Ocasio-Cortez specifically. In New York, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, successfully defended her seat for the first time, dispatching a number of challengers, including former CNBC journalist Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. The congresswoman had more than 70 percent of the vote when the Associated Press called the race in her favor.

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.

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'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.'

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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.

'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.

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'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.'

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'Our country must atone for it all,' she concluded.

Newsweek contacted Ocasio-Cortez for comment.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex (D-NY), who is one of the most far-left members of Congress, was overwhelmingly rejected during a secret ballot vote on Friday in her bid to be seated on a powerful congressional committee.

Democrats overwhelmingly voted to give the seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) instead of Ocasio-Cortez in what ended up being a 46-13 vote.

“Rice and Ocasio-Cortez have been battling behind the scenes for weeks to secure one of the few open seats on the exclusive committee, which oversees everything from health care policy to climate issues,” Politico reported. “Tensions spilled into the open Thursday in a private meeting of the Steering and Policy Committee, where Democrats were forced to choose between the two members in a tense — and awkward — secret ballot vote.”

Politico noted that Ocasio-Cortez was rejected because many in the party view her “far-left policies” as a “threat” in addition to her backing far-left candidates in primary races against incumbent Democrats, and “her refusal to pay party campaign dues.”

One member of Congress told Axios that the vote would have “been very different if it wasn’t secret,” which suggests that Democrats might be afraid of AOC.

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The Committee, which was established in 1795, has the broadest jurisdiction of any authorizing committee in Congress as it legislates on a variety of issues, including health care, including mental health and substance abuse; health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid; biomedical research and development; food, drug, device and cosmetic safety; environmental protection; clean air and climate change; safe drinking water; toxic chemicals and hazardous waste; national energy policy; renewable energy and conservation; nuclear facilities; electronic communications and the internet; broadcast and cable television; privacy, cybersecurity and data security; consumer protection and product safety; motor vehicle safety; travel, tourism and sports; and interstate and foreign commerce.

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The Committee also oversees multiple federal departments and agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Indian Health Service, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of Commerce, Department of Transportation, and the Department of Homeland Security.

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The blowout vote against Ocasio-Cortez comes after she complained during an interview this week about the leadership in the Democrat Party.

“Well, you know, I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party,” she said in an interview with The Intercept. “I think one of the things that I have struggled with — I think that a lot of people struggle with — is the internal dynamics of the House has made it such that there’s very little option for succession, if you will, you know? And I think it’s easy for someone to say, ‘Oh, well, you know, why don’t you run?’ But the House is extraordinarily complex. And I’m not ready. It can’t be me! I know that I couldn’t do that job.”

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