'COME FOR ME': AOC taunts Tom Homan after DOJ referral threat over deportations

Ocasio-Cortez told attendees at a Queens town hall event that she was not afraid of the words from the immigration hardliner in the wake of her office hosting a "Know your Rights" webinar in February. Homan has suggested her actions might be illegal and may impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from carrying out the Trump administration's mass deportations. 

Ocasio-Cortez asserted that there was "nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me."

In February, Ocasio-Cortez's office hosted a live webinar advising migrants in her district about their rights if they come face to face looking to deport them.

People were recommended to ask for warrants, record searches if ICE came calling and were given tips on how to differentiate between different warrants ICE agents are likely to carry.

That led to Homan suggesting the New York Democrat could be crossing a line.

"I'm working with the Department of Justice and finding out. Where is that line that they cross? So maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now," he said after the event.

"I don't even want to call them deportations. They are sanctioned kidnappings in many circumstances," the congresswoman told attendees. "They do not have carte blanche to enter. If they do want to knock on your door, or knock on anyone's door - including your workplace - you can tell them, 'Show me a warrant. Show me a judicial warrant.' And if they don't show you a warrant, you can say they can come back with a warrant. You have the right to turn them away."

Ocasio-Cortez was speaking to a packed auditorium full of hundreds for attendees. Those who couldn't get in sat in an overflow room across the hall. 

Attendees gave the progressive lawmaker a warm reception and, bar one disruptor, appeared fully supportive of her legislative agenda and her representation of the district to date. Many questions from the audience centered around local issues, calls for a minimum wage hike, how to improve air quality as well as asking her how she plans on tackling the Trump administration. 

The loudest applause came when Ocasio-Cortez voiced her opposition to a proposed new casino at Citi Field, which would be part of new sports and entertainment park. It has gotten approval from the New York City Council, although the congresswoman said she doesn't have a say in the matter since it's a state issue as well as not being in her district.

The event was mostly uneventful except for an early disruption by a protester who began shouting at Ocasio-Cortez about the "genocide" in Gaza.   

"Shame! Shame! Shame!" the audience began shouting at the disruptor. Audible "boos" could be heard as well before she was eventually led out by security.

Fox News' Alec Schemmel and Taylor Penney contributed to this report.