Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a recent interview with Eyewitness News ABC7NY that she does not regret comparing American border detention facilities to concentration camps and for evoking the Holocaust.
The New York Democrat also agreed that her statements were misinterpreted.
“One I don’t regret it at all,” she said. “A group, in fact of, I think 200, at least 200, historians, rabbis, academics have come together in support of this term.”
Regarding whether she believes the conditions in the border facilities are the same as the death camps run by the Nazis, Ocasio-Cortez said she does, pointing to a visit she made with other members of Congress to the border.
“I’ve seen it. I’ve sat on concrete floors with woman whose hair was falling out and they’re developing sores in their mouth,” she explained. “Parents are dying with their children watching them and all without a trial, all with just an accusation, and all with the intent to dehumanize.”
Ocasio-Cortez said it was “ahistorical” for Republicans to accuse her of being anti-Semitic for downplaying the Holocaust to score political points.
