Rep. Rashida Tlaib strongly endorsed fellow Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s assertion that the immigrant detention centers are concentration camps.
“Absolutely, I mean there’s an number of experts that say this is, because it’s traumatic,” Tlaib said during a Sunday interview with ABC’s This Week.
Tlaib pointed to the recent trip she and other members of Congress made to a border detention facility in El Paso, Texas.
“I mean, I don’t know how to explain to people what we saw. When we’re explaining to people and they’re kind of looking back and saying, ‘Well, that can’t be true.’ I said, ‘But we were all there … all of us were there.’ We saw what we saw and we heard from the folks that were in the facilities, and some of them had not seen their children since being there,” she said.
Tlaib said just holding the hands of some of those who were in the detention centers led the migrants to break down crying.
“The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary,” the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said of Ocasio-Cortez’s comparison last month. “That position has repeatedly and unambiguously been made clear in the Museum’s official statement on the matter — a statement that is reiterated and reaffirmed now.”
