VP Pence Calls Out Ocasio-Cortez for Comparing US Border Facilities to Concentration Camps

Vice President Mike Pence delivers a keynote address during Access Intelligence's Satellite 2019 Conference and Exhibition at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington on May 6, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Vice President Mike Pence has criticized Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for comparing U.S. border facilities with “concentration camps,” describing the comments as “an outrage.”

“To compare the humane work of dedicated men and women of Customs and Border Protection with the horrors of the Holocaust is an outrage,” Pence said. “The Nazis took lives. American law enforcement saves lives every day.”