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Tom Homan fires back at AOC for mocking his warning that 'evading law enforcement' has consequences

16 February 2025 at 11:27

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and border czar Tom Homan's back-and-forth continued Sunday as the "Squad" Democrat's reply to a warning that she could soon find herself in "trouble" for allegedly impeding ICE operations roused an on-air response.

"What she needs to do is read the statutes enacted by Congress… because it's a crime to enter this country illegally," the Trump border czar said on this week's "Sunday Morning Futures."Β 

"Not only that, but when you harbor and conceal and impede law enforcement, that's a felony. What she's doing, she says she's educating everybody on their constitutional rights, and we all know they've got constitutional rights, but what she's really doing… she's trying to teach them how to evade law enforcement."

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The clash began with Ocasio-Cortez's hosting of a "Know Your Rights with ICE" webinar on her Facebook page, advising illegal immigrants on how to handle an encounter with the agency.Β 

Homan, responding to that webinar on "The Ingraham Angle," recently suggested the New York Democrat could be crossing a line.

"I'm working with the Department of Justice and finding out. Where is that line that they cross? So maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now," he said.

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Ocasio-Cortez responded on X, mocking the suggestion that she could soon be in trouble, adding that Homan "learn how to read," beginning with the Constitution.

Homan reiterated that ICE raids are currently concentrating on national security and public safety threats by zeroing in on illegal immigrants with "significant criminal convictions." By "educating" those living in the U.S. illegally on ways to evade law enforcement, he suggested she could be sewing the seeds of another heinous crime.

"Let's hope she's not educating the next person who gets out and murders a young college student in Georgia…" he said. "She can call it education all she wants. But we all know it's about evading law enforcement."

Fox News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

UK man arrested for praying outside abortion clinic praises VP Vance for bringing attention to case

16 February 2025 at 09:19

Vice President JD Vance left U.K. army veteran Adam Smith-Connor "incredibly surprised" after his story of being arrested for silently praying outside an abortion clinic became the focus of a defense of free speech and religious liberty on the international stage over the weekend.

"I had no idea it was going to happen," Smith-Connor said Sunday on "Fox & Friends Weekend."

"I'm a physiotherapist. I was treating a patient. I just had a few minutes' gap between patients… and [I learned] the vice president of America was talking about [my] case, so it was incredibly surprising, and I'm very grateful to him for highlighting this case."

Smith-Connor was found guilty of breaching the local government's Public Spaces Protection Order in October, nearly two years after standing outside an abortion facility with his head bowed in silent prayer.

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He was ordered to pay Β£9,000 (approximately $11,330 USD) to his prosecutors as a result.

Vance highlighted the case as he blasted 'Soviet'-style European censorship in an address to European leaders at the Munich Security Conference last Friday.Β 

"The backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular, in the crosshairs," the vice president said.

"A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith-Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an Army veteran with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes, not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own."

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Lois McLatchie Miller, senior legal communications officer at Alliance Defending Freedom International, informed Smith-Connor of Vance's acknowledgment through a phone call.Β 

She told "Fox & Friends Weekend" co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy that ADF International is supporting his legal defense as they seek to appeal the judgment later this year.

"This intervention from Vice President Vance highlighting the case really exposes that this is the worst example of censorship in the West right now. If we cannot think thoughts in our heads on certain British streets, we have no hope for freedom anywhere else."

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