What is it costing us, as human beings and as a society to look the other way when women, and children, and innocent people, and young men of promise, are ripped off the street and thrown into a van and dissapeared and you never see them again. There's what that cost to them, but think about what that costs you to look the other way. What does it cost us as a society that starts to normalize looking the other way. - AOC

AOC is US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York)

• May 8, 2026. Here’s the full 5-minutes on YouTube: We need to Abolish ICE. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

From the youtube description: We need to abolish ICE. What does it cost our humanity to look the other way when women, children, and young men of promise are ripped off the street and disappeared? What does it cost us as a society to normalize looking the other way to such barbarism?