Ocasio-Cortez presses case that U.S. is running 'concentration camps' at border amid Republican

[meow2u3]

outcry

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) pressed her case Tuesday that the Trump administration is running “concentration camps” at the U.S.-Mexico border amid criticism from Republicans who said she was demeaning Jews exterminated in the Holocaust.

During a live stream Monday night, the freshman lawmaker decried the conditions of migrant detention facilities the administration is using to cope with a surge of border crossings and highlighted a decision to hold some children at an Oklahoma Army base that was used as an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II.

“The fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the home of the free is extraordinarily disturbing, and we need to do something about it,” Ocasio-Cortez told her viewers on Instagram. She later accused Trump of conducting “an authoritarian and fascist presidency.”

“I don’t use those words lightly,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I don’t use those words to just throw bombs. I use that word because that is what an administration that creates concentration camps is. A presidency that creates concentration camps is fascist, and it’s very difficult to say that.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/ocasio-cortez-presses-case-that-us-is-running-concentration-camps-at-border-amid-republican-outcry/2019/06/18/09ee7eb6-91d8-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html?utm_term=.ed69a37483fd

The piece by Jack Holmes, the magazine’s politics editor, quoted historians who said the facilities meet the definition of a “concentration camp” and said that not every concentration camp is intended as a death camp, as in the Holocaust.

In another tweet, Ocasio-Cortez dismissed critics of her views as “shrieking Republicans.”

[empedocles]

1. Dems need to hammer that TRUMP 'concentration camp' phrase home over and over again.

With pictures.

[live love laugh]

2. YES! Bumper sticker language to counter theirs. nt

[gratuitous]

3. Republicans are more upset about what their concentration camps are called

What kind of blind trust do you have to put your humanity in to be more upset about these facilities being called concentration camps than you are about what's happening to the people in them?

[bullwinkle428]

4. AOC continues to conduct a MASTER CLASS in message communication!

Yeah, Repukes - we know that protecting the feelings of Jews ranks really high on your priority list.

[Qutzupalotl]

5. Um ... they're allowing the demeaning of Hispanic families

that were torn apart by our cruel dictator.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. Yeah the Trumpists are shrieking about how they can't be concentration camps....

cuz no one is being gassed....

[gordianot]

7. She is one of the few using the correct term "concentration camps".

[Lint Head]

8. I love to see Republicans outcry. Also, pissing off tha GOP is great fun.

[AtheistCrusader]

9. She's not wrong. And it's on us to keep them from becoming Death Camps.

[Gore1FL]

10. She had me at "Shrieking Republicans."

That seriously needs to be a commonly used phrase.

[DemoTex]

11. How long before they re-open the Manzanar internment camp?

Manzanar WW-II Internment Camp
US-395 near Lone Pine
California

[MichMan]

12. Is that one of them that opened in the 40's when FDR was president?

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