Liberals led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and groups like MoveOn.org are brushing aside criticism from Holocaust survivors and doubling down their claim that U.S. border facilities are “concentration camps.”
In a tweet, the New York representative repeated her assertions that the border buildings where those surging into the U.S. are held are comparable to Nazi death camps. “These are concentration camps,” she wrote.
And today, MoveOn.org pushed that narrative and is even fundraising off it.
The liberal group has released a concentration camp sticker portraying a child looking through prison bars shown as the red and white stripes of the U.S. flag.
These are concentration camps.
According to concentration camp experts, people begin to die due to overcrowding, neglect, and shortage of resources.
We saw all three of those signs on our trip yesterday. Another person died yesterday.
And those are the deaths we know about. https://t.co/MhujNAYohJ
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 2, 2019
“We must demand an immediate closure of the concentration camps at the border,” said MoveOn in a fundraising email that offered the “Close the camps” sticker.
Those who sign up for it are prompted, “Thanks for ordering your sticker! Can you chip in $15 a month to help support our work to defend immigrant communities and stop the atrocity on the border?”
MoveOn was part of this week’s demonstrations against the Trump administration’s border policies, and told supporters in the email, “Today, tens of thousands of MoveOn members and our allies took to the streets at more than 175 protests in more than 40 states to demand that Donald Trump’s child concentration camps—where imprisoned immigrants are held at the border and across the country—be closed immediately. The pressure is growing, with multiple members of Congress talking with activists today and pledging to go to the border, but it will take all of us to provide immediate relief to those in detention.”
Ocasio-Cortez has been assailed by survivors of the Holocaust angered that she is using their experience and the elimination of 6 million by the Nazis to criticize poor border conditions.
She shrugged that off on Twitter:
“According to concentration camp experts, people begin to die due to overcrowding, neglect, and shortage of resources. We saw all three of those signs on our trip yesterday. Another person died yesterday. And those are the deaths we know about,” she wrote.
