“This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying,” the congresswoman wrote. “At least during the internment, my parents were able to place themselves between the horror of what we were facing and my own childish understanding of our circumstances.”Įarlier on Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez had invited controversy with a post comparing the concentration camps and current US border detentions. “At least during the internment, when I was just 5 years old, I was not taken from my parents,” he wrote in an op-ed for Foreign Policy magazine.
When news of the President’s “zero-tolerance” policy – which separated thousands of children from their parents – first broke last year, Takei called the border situation “worse” than the circumstances in which he was placed in a Japanese-American internment camp in the 1940s. This is not the first time Takei has spoken out against the Trump administration’s immigration policies. And yes, we are operating such camps again.- George Takei June 19, 2019
And yes, we are operating such camps again.” “I know what concentration camps are,” Takei wrote on Twitter this Tuesday. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went too far when she compared the detention of immigrants at the border to being put in “concentration camps” earlier this week.īut actor and activist George Takei, who was sent to a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II with his family, backed up the New York Democrat’s characterization.
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