US Representative,NY-14 (BX & Queens). In a modern, moral, & wealthy society, no American should be too poor to live. 
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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 analysis 
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a27813648/concentration-camps-southern-border-migrant-detention-facilities-trump/ …
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.
To be clear we are talking about people entering the country illegally, correct? Our country has been mismanaged for a very long time. We have serious problems for the people that are currently here. Allowing millions more to just flow through will not help that situation.
Asylum seekers are not here illegally. They are being thrown in concentration camps on the border. Many are children. That’s what we are talking about.
Hold on, I'm just going to call my 91 year old grandmother to clarify if it was a concentration camp or a death camp that took her family and friends.
So Auschwitz didn’t kill people? Huh. That’s weird.pic.twitter.com/MaBLeX6h0G
It'd be, I don't know, human, if people would care more about the people than the semantics involved. I think the lack of basic human decency is what has affected me the most. @AOC, I got your back. You work hard. You care about the people you represent. Keep on strong!
Illegal immigrants. Illegal being the key word here!!
Just because they are illegal immigrants, doesn’t mean they lose their rights as human beings. It is horrifying for this to be happening in a country where freedom is one of our core beliefs
con·cen·tra·tion camp a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.
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