- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused President Donald Trump of running “concentration camps” to detain migrants and said his administration is “authoritarian and fascist” on Monday.
- “‘Never Again’ means something … the fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the home of the free is extraordinarily disturbing,” the lawmaker said during an Instagram Live discussion.
- Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks ignited a fierce debate over whether it’s ethical to invoke World War II concentration camps in criticising the US’s immigrant detention program.
- “‘Never Again’ is the phrase that Jews all over the world use to make sure that the extermination between 1939 and 1945 never happens again,” the Fox anchor Bill Hemmer said on Tuesday. “How in the world is that acceptable?”
- But some Jews and descendants of Holocaust survivors defended Ocasio-Cortez’s argument, emphasising the distinction between concentration camps used for internment and the death camps used for the extermination millions of Jews and others during the Holocaust.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doubled down on her argument that President Donald Trump is running “concentration camps” to detain migrants and that his administration is “authoritarian and fascist” on Tuesday.
“Never again means something … the fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the home of the free is extraordinarily disturbing,” the lawmaker said during an Instagram Live discussion on Monday night, adding that the Trump presidency is “fascist.”
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