10/25/23

PRESCOTT AREA CONGRESSMAN ELI CRANE IS WORKING TO GET AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FIRED. IN A STATEMENT FROM HIS OFFICE, CRANE SAID ASYLUM OFFICER NEJWA ALI POSTED CONTENT ON HER SOCIAL MEDIA THAT GLORIFIED THE RECENT HAMAS ATTACK ON ISREAL. 

CRANE WROTE A LETTER TO D-H-S SECRETARY ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS THAT READ, “MS. ALI HAS A HISTORY OF POSTING ABHORRENTLY ANTISEMITIC AND HATEFUL RHETORIC ON HER FACEBOOK, TWITTER, AND INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS, WHICH HAS ONLY INTENSIFIED SINCE HAMAS CARRIED OUT AN ATTACK AGAINST ISRAEL ON OCTOBER 7. THE TERROR ATTACK CLAIMED THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 1,400 PEOPLE, INCLUDING 31 AMERICANS. THE ATTACK INVOLVED PALESTINIAN MILITANTS PARAGLIDING INTO ISRAEL UPON WHICH THEY SET CIVILIANS ON FIRE, RAPED WOMEN, KIDNAPPED CHILDREN, AND SLAUGHTERED ENTIRE FAMILIES.

"FOLLOWING THE ATTACK, MS. ALI POSTED A GRAPHIC OF ARMED TERRORISTS PARAGLIDING INTO ISRAEL WITH THE CAPTION “FREE PALESTINE, GLORIFYING AND JUSTIFYING THE MURDEROUS RAMPAGE CARRIED OUT BY HAMAS TERRORISTS."