Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., supports nationwide anti-ICE shutdown taking place Friday but says her office will remain open to handle immigration cases and provide community support.<\/b>
\nRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., pledged her \u00ab\u00a0full support\u00a0\u00bb for a nationwide anti-ICE protest scheduled for Friday, but said her office would not participate.
Organizers of the \u00ab\u00a0National Shutdown\u00a0\u00bb campaign have called for \u00ab\u00a0no school, no work and no shopping\u00a0\u00bb on Friday, arguing that \u00ab\u00a0enough is enough\u00a0\u00bb in the wake of fatal shootings involving Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis amid a federal immigration crackdown across Minnesota.
\u00ab\u00a0The people of the Twin Cities have shown the way for the whole country \u2014 to stop ICE\u2019s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN\u00a0\u00bb, organizers wrote on their website.
Ocasio-Cortez, who has criticized the Trump administration\u2019s immigration enforcement tactics in the state, said her office would not be shutting down.
\u00ab\u00a0Full disclosure \u2014 my office handles crucial casework and immigration cases for the community. We will be open tomorrow to continue community support and defend immigrant families\u00a0\u00bb, she posted to Instagram.
Ocasio-Cortez then offered her \u00ab\u00a0full support for national mobilizations, general strikes, and mass movement work.\u00a0\u00bb
Organizers for the shutdown campaign asserted online that ICE and Border Patrol agents \u00ab\u00a0are going into our communities to kidnap our neighbors and sow fear.\u00a0\u00bb
The online campaign added that \u00ab\u00a0it is time for us to all stand up together in a nationwide shutdown and say enough is enough.\u00a0\u00bb
Pretti, a 37-year-old Department of Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents on Jan. 24 while recording federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.
Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 by an ICE officer, who fired in self-defense after she used her Honda Pilot SUV in a way that posed a threat, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Thousands of anti-ICE protesters rallied to halt federal immigration enforcement as part of an \u00ab\u00a0ICE Out of MN: Day of Truth and Freedom\u00a0\u00bb march across downtown Minneapolis on Jan. 23, one day before Pretti was fatally shot.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Ocasio-Cortez’s office for comment.<\/p>\n