Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer strongly criticized Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s comparison of immigration detention facilities to Holocaust concentration camps during his show Tuesday.
“The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are. They are concentration camps,” the New York Democrat said Monday.
“I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity that ‘Never Again’ means something,” she continued. “The fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the home of the free is extraordinarily disturbing and we need to do something about it.”
“I tell you, she’s not afraid of throwing out these phrases. I don’t know if she’s been to the border yet,” Hemmer said after showing the Instagram live video.
“She used the extermination of 6 million people … has she ever been to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem or Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland? Or Dachau in Germany?” Hemmer asked on Tuesday.
“‘Never Again’ is the phrase that Jews use all over the world to make sure that the extermination between 1939 and 1945 never happens again, and she is using ‘concentration camps’ to describe what is happening on the southern border,” he said. “How in the world is that acceptable? Does she not owe every Jew on this planet an apology?”
Ocasio-Cortez’s comparison has received rebuke from Republican members of Congress.
Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this. https://t.co/NX5KPPb2Hl
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) June 18, 2019
“Clearly I need to explain that, in concentration camps, people are unjustly sought out and confined,” Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw tweeted. “This isn’t what is happening at the border. Migrants are illegally crossing our border. Most are asylum seekers, thus pending trial, so your expert definition doesn’t apply.”
