Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) does not believe there is any kind of crisis going on at the southern border.

In an interview on MSNBC this week, the New York Congresswoman outlined her view that the border crisis is a "false narrative" pushed by "xenophobic" Republicans.

She explained: 

The idea that Republicans, in order to win an election, say, 'We need to hermetically seal the border,' when they know that would be -- that is economic self-sabotage to the U.S. economy, and they are saying, 'Let’s do it anyway,' and to compensate for the negative effects, we are going to allow and throw people's kids into factories, that is what they are doing in rolling back child labor laws while being as xenophobic and anti-immigrant as they are and while ginning up this false narrative about this being a crisis. 

The far-left firebrand also blamed Republicans for blocking legislation that would allow illegal immigrants to immediately enter the U.S. labor market and begin a path to citizenship: 

And by the way, by them also preventing and blocking any legislation that would provide not just a path to citizenship, but a path to work papers, a path to allowing people who want to work to be paired with American businesses who need people to work. And, I mean, there is not only no moral calculation. There is no economic calculation. There is no logical calculation. There is only a political calculation. 

We're going to keep pretending this is a crisis while contributing to actual problems. And then we're going to block the solution so that we can campaign on it over and over and over.

Ocasio-Cortez was, of course, only expressing her long-held view that illegal immigration is actually a positive and that the thousands of illegals arriving in her home city of New York are a good thing for America. 

AOC says that the migrant crisis is a hoax and a conspiracy theory that conservatives and xenophobes are using to campaign on and that securing the border would destroy the US economy, which requires a massive migrant workforce. Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/WubodyARPo

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 24, 2024

Last month, she similarly outlined her plan to fix the illegal immigration crisis by handing out visas and passports to anyone who wants them: 

From all parts of the political spectrum, one of the biggest issues that we have when it comes to immigration is the fact that we have an undocumented population. Now, you can fix that by trying to build a wall, or you can fix that by trying to document people and create a path to citizenship.

And, um, we'll have folks that might say, "Look at these systems," you know, that our shelter system has weight and things like that, but one of the reasons our public systems experience weight is because people don't have a documented and reliable path to work and sustain themselves just like all of our ancestors did and our grandparents and great-grand parents from all parts of the political spectrum. 

So there you have it. In Ocasio-Cortez's bizarre view of the world, the U.S. should simply open the floodgates and offer citizenship to everyone. 

What she thinks this would do to the average wage and living standards of ordinary Americans is unclear, although perhaps she concurs with the Democratic candidate for Senator of California Barbara Lee that the answer is to introduce a $50 minimum wage. 

AOC's solution to the border crisis:

"You can either fix it by trying to build a wall. Or you can fix it by documenting people."

The best way to end illegal migration is by legalizing it. AOC is brilliant. pic.twitter.com/aB5i9oUxzo

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 7, 2024

Given the current rate of inflation, $50 an hour may indeed be what an American needs to live comfortably in today's economy. But anyone with the most elementary economics knows that this would essentially crash the American system and lead to a devaluation of the U.S. dollar that would make the Great Depression seem like a minor hiccup.