Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The U.S. is 'running concentration camps on our southern border'

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By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News




Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, on Monday told her Instagram followers that the U.S. government is "running concentration camps on our southern border."

"That is exactly what they are. They are concentration camps," Ocasio-Cortez said during a live-stream that was viewed by Fox News.

Her office did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment. The freshman representative did, however, retweet a screengrab for the Q&A with a caption that praised her accessibility.

She told her followers she wants to talk to people "who are concerned enough with humanity to say that 'never again' means something."

"The fact that concentrations camps are now an institutionalized practice in the Home of the Free is extraordinarily disturbing and we need to do something about it," the freshman Democrat continued.

The New York representative insisted that "we are losing to an authoritarian and fascist presidency."

"I don't use those words lightly," Ocasio-Cortez continued. "I don't use those words to just throw bombs. I use that word because that is what an administration that creates concentration camps is. A presidency that creates concentration camps is fascist and it's very difficult to say that."

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We give our poor refugees a tropical holiday with start-up pack and you lock yours up! Nazis

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We give our poor refugees a tropical holiday with start-up pack and you lock yours up! Nazis

Right. You don't ever let them hit your shores and send them to refugee camps in another nation.

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Right. You don't ever let them hit your shores and send them to refugee camps in another nation.

There's already been suggestions that Canada take the overflow of Mexican immigrants coming north.

We have opened our doors so wide to other countries, not sure if we need Spanish along with eight Asian dialects and two Farsi languages on the bank machines..

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There's already been suggestions that Canada take the overflow of Mexican immigrants coming north.

We have opened our doors so wide to other countries, not sure if we need Spanish along with eight Asian dialects and two Farsi languages on the bank machines..

[Pony]

We give our poor refugees a tropical holiday with start-up pack and you lock yours up! Nazis

There's already been suggestions that Canada take the overflow of Mexican immigrants coming north.

We have opened our doors so wide to other countries, not sure if we need Spanish along with eight Asian dialects and two Farsi languages on the bank machines..

Mex to Can refugee tunnel!

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She's getting more off the deep end. Not to mention that congress is blocking the funding to do more.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

She's getting more off the deep end. Not to mention that congress is blocking the funding to do more.

Pipe down there Brownshirt

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I felt the Archie Bunker gene become dominant there for a second

Hey dere dingbat grab me a beer wouldya?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

It's just like making a phone call to almost any business or government office anymore...."To Continue in English, Press 1."

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It's just like making a phone call to almost any business or government office anymore...."To Continue in English, Press 1."

I probably told this story before. The NE section of our city is known as being filled with brown people. All sorts of nationalities with a focus on East Indians.

One of our production facilities was situated there and I often had to visit it. I went out for lunch one day looking for a sub shop or similar in the area.

I pulled into this medium sized strip mall and every sign was in a language other than English. Mostly Punjabi.

Without exaggeration every single sign in the mall. I couldn't tell the dry cleaners from the food places from the whatever places.

Up here we have a law. It's either English only on signs as that's our primary national language or English/French bilingual signs.


I have to say I felt a little lost in the city I've lived in for 50 years...not sure if that's right

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I probably told this story before. The NE section of our city is known as being filled with brown people. All sorts of nationalities with a focus on East Indians.

One of our production facilities was situated there and I often had to visit it. I went out for lunch one day looking for a sub shop or similar in the area.

I pulled into this medium sized strip mall and every sign was in a language other than English. Mostly Punjabi.

Without exaggeration every single sign in the mall. I couldn't tell the dry cleaners from the food places from the whatever places.

Up here we have a law. It's either English only on signs as that's our primary national language or English/French bilingual signs.


I have to say I felt a little lost in the city I've lived in for 50 years...not sure if that's right

There's similar sections of Denver like that. One area,which is not a particularly nice section of the city, the signs are all in Spanish, everything, all the stores, the billboards, everything. You would think you were in Tijuana. Then there's a section tnhat's known locally as little Korea, and as you can tell by the name, it's nothing but Koreans and Korean businesses and all the signage is in Korean.

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There's similar sections of Denver like that. One area,which is not a particularly nice section of the city, the signs are all in Spanish, everything, all the stores, the billboards, everything. You would think you were in Tijuana. Then there's a section tnhat's known locally as little Korea, and as you can tell by the name, it's nothing but Koreans and Korean businesses and all the signage is in Korean.

Yeah I think there should be some written rule about respecting what amounts to the spoken national language in a country.

I want to say indigenous language but then that brings a whole other argument from Native Indians.

Welcoming and integrating new cultures is a process of give and take. You can't erase or stomp over the existing culture while still making it welcoming and accessible for immigrants.

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Yeah I think there should be some written rule about respecting what amounts to the spoken national language in a country.

I want to say indigenous language but then that brings a whole other argument from Native Indians.

Welcoming and integrating new cultures is a process of give and take. You can't erase or stomp over the existing culture while still making it welcoming and accessible for immigrants.

Exactly, do you think if we emigrated to Mexico or India that there would be sections of whichever city we moved to like "Americatown" or "Canadaville" where everything would be just like it is here with everyone speaking English? Of course not, but that's EXACTLY what 'refugees' and the illegals that come here expect, our countries to bend to them, not the other way around.

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I probably told this story before. The NE section of our city is known as being filled with brown people. All sorts of nationalities with a focus on East Indians.

One of our production facilities was situated there and I often had to visit it. I went out for lunch one day looking for a sub shop or similar in the area.

I pulled into this medium sized strip mall and every sign was in a language other than English. Mostly Punjabi.

Without exaggeration every single sign in the mall. I couldn't tell the dry cleaners from the food places from the whatever places.

Up here we have a law. It's either English only on signs as that's our primary national language or English/French bilingual signs.


I have to say I felt a little lost in the city I've lived in for 50 years...not sure if that's right

We've got several of those here too. And my wife has discovered you basically cannot work in the hospitals in some parts of town without speaking Chinese or Hindi (especially in her field of geriatrics as there are so many elderly folks who never learned English living here). It really doesn't impress me, though part of me thinks that if I HAD to leave my country to support my family or escape turmoil, I'd probably group up with Canadians/Americans wherever I went too (though I like to think I'd make more effort to learn the language and culture, and we've made it to easy not to do that).

Anyways, with that said... I LOVE going to these malls Some of the best food court food I've had in my life is in Richmond. It's like traveling to Asia without going on a long haul flight. Food at these places is out of this world if you're into authentic Asian cuisines and drinks.