AOC Flails During NPR Interview On Immigration: ‘What Does The Word ‘Problem’ Mean?’

In the months since President Donald Trump secured a decisive win in both the popular and electoral vote, some Democrats have been thinking about ways to regain the working-class voters they have lost in recent years.

Part of that emerging strategy involves taking a page from the GOP’s playbook on the topic of border security:

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"We've got to show that we can get back in touch with Americans, especially around the issues that really matter. There is a problem at the border. For too long, Democrats denied… pic.twitter.com/cYIMP2p6xO

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) February 26, 2025

For far-left hard-liners like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), though, there is no sign of backing away from the open-borders policies of the Biden administration.

She made that clear during a recent NPR interview, first by claiming not to know about any problem and then by trying to pin the blame on Republicans.

As Fox News reported:

As Democrats continue to reel from the November election loss to now-President Donald Trump, some have argued the party needs a fresh approach to the migrant crisis plaguing the southern border. Others, like AOC, have urged citizens to find ways to resist the president and ICE agents’ efforts to deport illegal immigrants.

National Public Radio host Steve Inskeep spoke to the congresswoman, who won office initially during Trump’s first term, about where she and her party stand now.

“To what extent is immigration, as an issue, part of your problem with working-class voters?” he asked.

“I guess my question would be, what does the word ‘problem’ mean?” Ocasio-Cortez replied.

“People voting for the other side and not for you,” Inskeep clarified.

“I think that we have a problem on immigration because of the lack of progress that we’ve had on this issue, and as we know, Republicans weaponize that lack of progress,” AOC replied. She then referred to the purportedly bipartisan bill that Republicans have argued was “never designed to solve the problem.”

“It is a problem not just for Democrats, it’s a problem for the entire country that Republicans do not want to solve,” Ocasio-Cortez argued.

Of course, it is clear from the reception of the Trump administration’s tough approach to immigration law enforcement that millions of Americans think the Democrats’ border policies are to blame:

.@ElonMusk is exactly right.

Joe Biden and the Democrats intentionally opened our borders wide.

They didn't care about the catastrophic consequences.

Because it was all about turning illegal aliens into Democrat voters. pic.twitter.com/mSXMJ8NBwz

— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) February 21, 2025

DEMOCRATS? This is how you shut down a border. It’s called leadership. pic.twitter.com/ysIl1VQCLk

— AmeriCAT™ (@KyntuckyKytten) February 23, 2025

A staggering 75% of Democrats don't believe that Biden's border crisis was deliberate, according to a new poll.

How could anyone not see that it was most clearly deliberate? If not, it's a massive blunder and neither are acceptable.

This is what we're dealing with here, folks.… pic.twitter.com/KvZaK00EKx

— David Joe May (@TheGrayRider) February 25, 2025

Of course, some Democrats could see the writing on the wall months before Election Day.

As The Hill reported last year, more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers supported a resolution denouncing the Biden administration’s approach to the border:

It additionally says Biden “purposely violated United States immigration law,” and has operated an “open borders agenda.”

The resolution passed the House in a 226-193 vote, with 13 members not participating. A total of 14 Democrats voted to pass the measure.

The vote sends a message to the Biden administration as moderate Democrats increase pressure on the president to consider more strict border controls amid Congressional negotiations on border security that have come to a standstill.

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President Biden backed a bipartisan Senate bill last month that included extensive border security reforms, but the bill was rejected by House Republicans as too weak. Negotiations have slowed in recent weeks as each side appears unwilling to consider the others’ demands.

Here’s a full clip of Ocasio-Cortez’s NPR interview: