Things went less than well for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York when she returned home to New York City to give a press conference on the illegal immigration situation in the city and, instead of receiving a warm welcome from the residents, got mercilessly booed and heckled by New Yorkers fed up with the disastrously bad current state of things.

Rep. AOC appeared alongside New York City Rep. Jerry Nadler for the event, but neither managed to speak much as the very vocal protesters shut them down with a cacophony of booing and heckling that turned the event into chaos. The fury of the New Yorkers was understandable, as more than 100,000 migrants have arrived in the city over the past year, putting serious strain on the city’s ability to shelter them. As a result, migrants have been housed in hotels at significant taxpayer expense while causing disorder in the streets and overtaxing the municipal services.

So, when Rep. AOC started speaking, during the presser, about how migrants are just trying to live out the American dream and so deserve a hefty amount of federal resources directed their way, the already angry crowd went berserk. AOC, trying to get her message out, said, “They are prevented from getting jobs, they are prevented from employment, and that is part of the strain on our public system. The faster that folks can access the work that they’re asking for, legally, the better we can solve this problem.”