“The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are, they are concentration camps,” she said in an Instagram video.
During a June 20 House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost was asked about the congresswoman’s comments.
“I personally find them offensive,” she said. “I’m calling agents who are bringing toys in for children and buying them with their personal money. Agents are bringing in clothes, they’re feeding babies, they’re going above and beyond, day in and day out, to try to care for these individuals.”
Ocasio-Cortez also said in the video that she wanted to “talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that we should not ... that ‘never again’ means something.”
