WALSH: AOC Claims That We’re Sending Immigrants To ‘Concentration Camps.’ That’s An Insane Lie.

This week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did another one of her iconic Instagram live videos where she sat on her couch and babbled about whatever subject happened to pop into her head. During the course of that performance, she made some rather startling claims. AOC declared that the government is running “concentration camps” on the border. Implicitly comparing the plight of Central American immigrants in the year 2019 to that of Jews in Nazi Germany, she cited the mantra “Never Again.” She also said that children are being sent to “internment camps.” So, according to a representative of the United States Congress, we have both internment camps and concentration camps in this country.

AOC spent much of yesterday trying, dishonestly, to downplay and obfuscate these statements. She denied that she was making a Holocaust reference — despite the fact that she used the phrase “never again,” which is a slogan specific to the Holocaust — and insisted that “concentration camps are considered by experts as ‘the mass detention of civilians without trial.'” As always, she wants to have her rhetorical cake and eat it, too. She wants to evoke images of the Holocaust without having to defend the comparison. It’s a bogus game. But no matter what sort of “concentration camp” we’re talking about — whether the Nazi variety or North Korean or anything else — it is simply false to claim that we have anything like it in our country.