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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
The US ran concentration camps before, when we rounded up Japanese people during WWII. It is such a shameful history that we largely ignore it. These camps occur throughout history. Many refuse to learn from that shame, but here we are today. We have an obligation to end them.
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Annalisa Merelli
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.@aoc isn't expressing an opinion, she is stating a fact: Border detention centers *are* concentration camps. Trying to reject the label is not going to make the atrocity go away: qz.com/1308141/are-us
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
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Not one dime should go to DHS for building these camps as they detain children & families. Congressional appropriations season is now. That means it’s 💰 time - we‘re voting to fund federal government programs. We should not fund the caging of kids & families. Pretty simple.
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Dov Hikind
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Washington Examiner
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FLASHBACK: Obama addresses "humanitarian crisis" at border in 2014. "The problem is under current law, once the kids come across the border, there’s a system in which we’re supposed to process them, take care of them... Our message is absolutely don t send your children"
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Rafael Shimunov
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There is no "line" that we cross that will be too far, the -direction- of our actions is the line and the direction is horrifying. Thank you sis for showing up always.
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Jeryl Bier
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I know your entrance into politics in relatively recent, but can you point to where you or any fellow Democrats referred to detainment facilities for undocumented migrants caught crossing the border as "concentration camps" during the Obama administration? Thanks.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼🌻
@ifindkarma
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The goal of concentration camps is to put people in places where voters don’t know what’s happening to them.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼🌻
@ifindkarma
The goal of concentration camps is to be ignored: “The human masses sealed off in camps are treated as if they no longer existed, as if what happened to them were no longer of interest to anybody, as if they were already dead...” twitter.com/andreapitzer/s twitter.com/mimirocah1/sta
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