Crenshaw Puts AOC on Blast After She Compares U.S. Migrant Facilities to Concentration Camps
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just bit off more than she can chew.
Note to self: If you are going to make completely dishonest and self-serving exaggerations that refer to the Holocaust, don’t do it where Rep. Dan Crenshaw can see it.
But AOC did exactly that in a Twitter post on Tuesday.
“This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying,” she AOC wrote. “This is not hyperbole. It is the conclusion of expert analysis.”
Her comparison of President Donald Trump’s efforts to deal with illegal migrants with the concentration camps of Hitler’s Nazi Germany did not go over well at all. (A tweet comparing Planned Parenthood to concentration camp operators, for instance, was priceless.)
So AOC did what AOC does.
She doubled down.
“And for the shrieking Republicans who don’t know the difference: concentration camps are not the same as death camps,” AOC told her critics. “Concentration camps are considered by experts as ‘the mass detention of civilians without trial.’ And that’s exactly what this administration is doing.”
This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying.
This is not hyperbole. It is the conclusion of expert analysisesquire.com/news-politics/…
And for the shrieking Republicans who don’t know the difference: concentration camps are not the same as death camps.
Concentration camps are considered by experts as “the mass detention of civilians without trial.”
And that’s exactly what this administration is doing.
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There’s only one problem. And it’s huge.
Crenshaw does know the difference.
“Clearly I need to explain that, in concentration camps, people are unjustly sought out and confined,” Crenshaw shot back in a Twitter post.
“This isn’t what is happening at the border. Migrants are illegally crossing our border. Most are asylum seekers, thus pending trial, so your expert definition doesn’t apply.”
But Crenshaw wasn’t finished.
“Your comments reveal total disregard for our sovereignty & a deep ignorance that belittles the horrors of the Holocaust,” Crenshaw wrote.
And then Crenshaw gave AOC a little helpful advice:
“If you’re worried about conditions at the border, why don’t you do something about it & support @RepMikeRogersAL’s bill securing billions in humanitarian aid?” Crenshaw said in reference to a bill proposed by Rep. Mike Rogers from Alabama’s 3rd Congressional District.
Clearly I need to explain that, in concentration camps, people are unjustly sought out and confined.
This isn’t what is happening at the border. Migrants are illegally crossing our border. Most are asylum seekers, thus pending trial, so your expert definition doesn’t apply. twitter.com/aoc/status/114…
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Your comments reveal total disregard for our sovereignty & a deep ignorance that belittles the horrors of the Holocaust.
If you’re worried about conditions at the border, why don’t you do something about it & support @RepMikeRogersAL’s bill securing billions in humanitarian aid?
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As of Wednesday afternoon, Crenshaw’s two tweets have more than 65,000 likes and 15,000 retweets.
Maybe AOC should leave this one to the adults.
