Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may have “little rules” about stepping back from social media, but that doesn’t mean she’s stopped using Twitter to stand up for what she believes in and support her colleagues in Congress.

In a tweet posted on May 23, AOC commended Representative Lauren Underwood (D-IL) for speaking out in a committee meeting about “cruel and inhumane” border policies resulting in child migrants’ illness and death, according to Politico.

"The evidence is really clear that this is intentional," Underwood said during the House Homeland Security Committee meeting on May 22, according to Politico. She referenced the recent deaths of minors in immigration custody and the family-separation crisis, continuing, "It's intentional. It's a policy choice being made on purpose by this administration, and it's cruel and inhumane."

Underwood’s comments were in response to acting Homeland Security secretary Kevin McAleenan’s testimony during the committee hearing on the DHS’s budget, according to the Chicago Tribune.

McAleenan said Underwood’s comments were an “appalling accusation,” and Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL) said Underwood was accusing the administration of murder, according to the Tribune.

"I did not say murder," Underwood responded. "I said five children have died as a result of a policy choice." The most recent child to die while in U.S. Border Protection custody was a 16-year-old boy from Guatemala, who died earlier this month after being apprehended by agents on May 13.

Nine Republicans on the committee voted against seven Democrats to strike Underwood’s comments from the record, according to The Hill, prompting Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet.

“Yesterday, GOP moved to silence Lauren Underwood’s words bc she had the audacity to say the obvious: that stealing children away from their parents, trafficking, & caging them w/o end is intended to do harm,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “They tried to silence her; make her back down. She didn’t. Be proud.”

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