Here is a tweet from soon after Biden took office in January 2021:
> People must understand the depth of what’s happening here: the President of the United States has ordered a halt to deportations. ICE, a federal agency, is refusing to comply.
> There’s no reforming this rogue dept. It’s time for a new, just vision.
https://x.com/AOC/status/1354211627940384768
A month later she was criticizing DHS for still having Patriot act powers, and lumped ICE with the same criticism:
> People have been writing about the deeply concerning issues with the structure of DHS for a long time.
> This is from 3 years before I was even elected.
> It’s not “fringe” to ask why FEMA & ICE are in the same Dept operation. Or question ICE’s operations
https://x.com/AOC/status/1364619004921413633
A day earlier she called for the abolition of ICE:
> It’s only 2 mos into this admin & our fraught, unjust immigration system will not transform in that time.
> That’s why bold reimagination is so impt.
> DHS shouldn’t exist, agencies should be reorganized, ICE gotta go, ban for-profit detention, create climate refugee status & more.
This one is very apt given OP.
https://x.com/AOC/status/1364349732760518657
She continued, this on is in April 2021:
> A lot of people who are just now suddenly horrified at the dehumanizing conditions at our border are the same folks who dehumanize immigrants + helped build these cages in the 1st place.
> When we tried to stop this infrastructure over a year ago,we were overruled by BOTH parties.
> Fact is a lot of the politicians crying right now don’t work to solve either.
> They vote to grow ICE + CBP cages and they do everything to avoid addressing the root: US foreign policy and interventionism that destabilizes regions, the climate crisis, and unjust economic policy.
https://x.com/AOC/status/1377652851191787532
Your statement that Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez stopped protesting these private prisons while Biden was in office is simply factually wrong. And it was not hard to check it.