AOC Was Actually Facing an Empty Parking Lot During Emotional Border Protest Photo Op

Clutching her face in despair and weeping, photos of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seemingly show her strong reaction to a horrific scene of US migrant detention. However, new angles reveal she may have played things up a bit.

While quite a few people noted that there was something a bit off about the congresswoman’s photo shoot at a border detention policy protest that went viral this week, there was nothing concrete to indicate her insincerity… until one gets a look at the massive empty road and parking lot on the other side.

Such a powerful photo of @AOC crying over a parking lot. Good acting. #BuildTheWall #IllegalImmigration https://t.co/EorZk9yV7v @LouderwCrowder pic.twitter.com/SyYgmgd1pU

— MJ (@Djm4Mj) June 26, 2019

Originally shot at a protest against tent-cities for migrant children at the US-Mexico border in Texas a year ago, the photos were not published until Monday. They came hot on the heels of the scandal surrounding AOC’s insistence that border detention facilities are “concentration camps.”

Before @AOC hit the national stage & was just a fairly unknown House candidate frm NYC,she took time awy frm her campaign & came dwn to #Tornillo to protest the #tentcity housing migrant children.I made these previously unpublished fotos a yr ago today. #elpaso #aoc #onassignment pic.twitter.com/SWyyI1XVt9

— Ivan Pierre Aguirre (@i_p_a_1) June 25, 2019