Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezHouse passes bill to avert shutdown Trump attacks Omar for criticizing US: 'How did you do where you came from?' The Memo: Dems face balancing act on SCOTUS fight MORE (D-N.Y.) blasted Democrats on Tuesday night for preparing a resolution rebuking Rep. Ilhan Omar Ilhan OmarOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Trump attacks Omar for criticizing US: 'How did you do where you came from?' Democrats scramble on COVID-19 relief amid division, Trump surprise MORE’s (D-Minn.) for remarks about Israel, arguing it was part of a brutal double standard.

In a pair of tweets, Ocasio-Cortez said Democrats are calling out Omar while letting those making votes or statements based on racist tropes toward Latinos off the hook.

Ocasio-Cortez singled out the entire premise of President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE’s wall on the Mexican border as being based on a racist trope.

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She also criticized 26 members of the Democratic Caucus who voted with Republicans last week on a measure that would require Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be notified if an undocumented immigrant seeks to buy a gun. Ocasio-Cortez said the amendment backed by the Democrats was based on a racist and false trope that Latino immigrants are more dangerous than U.S.-born citizens.

Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday that statements regarded as offensive to other minority groups are not condemned with resolutions.

The entire PREMISE of a wall is not based in fact.



It’s based in a racist + non-evidence based trope that immigrants are dangerous.



Yet some Dems are willing to “compromise” & spend BILLIONS on a trope because we’ve accepted some kinds of racism as realpolitik in America. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 6, 2019

“If we’re so concerned about implied tropes, why aren’t we concerned about this one? Where was the concern last week when 26 Dems voted for a GOP amendment to expand ICE powers rooted in the racist + false trope that Latino immigrants are more dangerous than US born citizens?” she said in a tweet.

Ocasio-Cortez then criticized the premise of a wall on the southern border.

“The entire PREMISE of a wall is not based in fact,” she tweeted.

“It’s based in a racist + non-evidence based trope that immigrants are dangerous. Yet some Dems are willing to 'compromise' & spend BILLIONS on a trope because we’ve accepted some kinds of racism as realpolitik in America.”

The 26 Democrats who voted on the ICE measure backed a procedural motion offered by Republicans, bucking their party in the process.

The incident underscored the tensions within the Democratic Party between progressives and centrists — some of whom won districts last fall that were carried by Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

The fight over Omar has also ripped at Democrats, sometimes breaking the party on racial and generational lines.

Omar, a close ally of Ocasio-Cortez and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, has come under fire for a string of remarks that critics have said are anti-Semitic.

In her most recent controversy, Omar at a Washington bookstore forum last week said that pro-Israel advocates are pushing “allegiance to a foreign country.”

Those comments came under fire from some Democratic lawmakers, including the chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Nita Lowey Nita Sue LoweyTop House Democrats call for watchdog probe into Pompeo's Jerusalem speech With Biden, advocates sense momentum for lifting abortion funding ban Progressives look to flex their muscle in next Congress after primary wins MORE (D-N.Y.), who is Jewish. Omar shot back at Lowey after the criticism, refusing to back down.

The House is now set on Thursday to vote on a measure condemning anti-Semitism, though the measure has been changed to also criticize anti-Muslim sentiment.

Supporters of Omar have pointed to a poster at the West Virginia Statehouse linking the freshman Democrat to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, questioning why that isn’t receiving the kind of condemnation that Omar’s remarks about Israel have inspired.