Silence on Biden’s border crisis: AOC plays by the dirty Washington rules after all

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The Biden administration has been widely criticized for its failure to address the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. But one key voice seems to be missing: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Just two years ago, the congresswoman from New York stood outside a migrant detention facility in Texas, where hundreds of unaccompanied children were being held, and denounced then-President Donald Trump’s “fascist” administration for keeping children in “mass concentration camps.” Yet, when it was reported that the Biden administration used the exact same apprehension strategy as Trump, Democrat Ocasio-Cortez responded with a mellow rebuke.

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