Ocasio-Cortez: Trump Is 'Anti-American' For Not Letting In Every Foreigner Who Wants To Come

WATCH: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers impassioned response to President Trump’s address: “The president should be really defending why we are funding [ICE] at all … right now, what we are seeing, is death.” pic.twitter.com/4Al4GLWUvB

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"No one should feel unsafe in the United States of America and that includes our amazing and beautiful and productive immigrant community. And moreover, the one thing that the president has not talked about is the fact that he has systematically engaged in the violation of human rights borders – of human rights on our borders," Ocasio-Cortez told Maddow.

[...] "He has separated children from their families, he talked about what happened the day after Christmas. On the day of Christmas, a child died in ICE custody," Ocasio-Cortez explained.

[...] "The president should not be asking for more to an agency [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] that has systematically violated human rights. The president should really be defending why we're funding such an agency at all because right now what we're seeing is death. Right now what we're seeing is the violation of human rights," she said.

"Even if you're anti-immigrant in this country, the majority of immigrant overstays, the majority of the reason that people are undocumented is visa overstays. It's not because people are crossing a border illegally," the Congresswoman said. "It's because of visa overstays, which, mind you, he is talking about legal immigration.

"He's trying to restrict every form of legal immigration there is in the United States. He's fighting against family unification. He's fighting against the diversity visa lottery. He's fighting against almost every legal way people can actually legally enter this country, forcing them to become undocumented and then he's trying to attack their undocumented status."