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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is asking Americans to reframe the way they see immigration policy. She asserted, “It isn’t about containing a problem, it’s about realizing the opportunity and value inherent in all people”. Ocasio-Cortez stressed undocumented immigrants in the United States pay taxes, meaning they pay for your kids’ schooling too. Ocasio-Cortez said in a tweet, “For the last time: People who are undocumented pay taxes! Public goods aren’t ‘gifts’ to immigrants-they pay for your kids’ schooling too”.
She added the fact that undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in federal taxes each year often goes overlooked in the immigration debate. Moreover, studies have long shown that millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S pay taxes and that immigration reform allowing undocumented immigrants to work in the United States legally would boost their state and local tax contributions.

She said in a short-video on June 17, 2019, posted on Instagram, “This week children, immigrant children, were moved to the same internment camps where the Japanese were held in the earlier 20^th century. And this is not even about a crisis for, this is not just about the immigrant communities being held in concentration camps being a crisis, this is a crisis for us. This is a crisis on if America will remain America in its actual principles and values or if we are losing to an authoritarian and fascist presidency”.
She added, “And so I think that that is, you know, I don’t use those words lightly. I don’t use those words to just throw bombs. I use that word because that is what an administration that creates concentration camps is. A presidency that creates concentration camps is fascist”. It is noteworthy that it is difficult to say exactly how much-undocumented immigrants contribute in taxes today. A 2013 report from the Institute On Taxation and Economic Policy highlighted how the 11.2 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States at the time were already paying a significant share of their income in state and local taxes.