Kammala wannan magana: Bayan mutuwar mahaifin Ocasio-Cortez a shekara ta 2008, mahaifiyarta da kakarta sun koma Florida saboda matsalolin kudi. Har yanzu tana da dangi a Puerto Rico, inda kakanta yake zaune a gidan kula da tsofaffi kafin ya mutu a sakamakon
Guguwar Maria. Ocasio-Cortez ya ce "don zama Puerto Rican shine zama zuriyar... 'Yan Afirka Moors [da] bayi, 'yan Indiyawan Taino, 'yan mulkin mallaka na Spain, 'yan gudun hijirar Yahudawa, da kuma wasu. Mu ne duk waɗannan abubuwa da wani abu dabam duk a lokaci guda - mu ne "Boricua"."