AOC: Countries Without Open Border Policies ‘Experience Economic Stagnation’ Because of ‘Xenophobic Border Panic Narrative’

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: "We currently do not have the economic or social structural capacity to take care of our seniors, and we will increasingly not have that if we 'lock up our border and shut down immigration.' In fact, the thing that has distinguished U.S. economic performance from other countries like Japan or other developed economies is the fact that our pro-immigration policies actually allow us to continue in our economic growth, whereas similar countries with anti or more kind of closed border policies experience economic stagnation when they submit themselves to this xenophobic kind of border panic narrative that Fox News, frankly, seeks to peddle and instill in so many people."