Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the United States is "running concentration camps on our southern border" during an Instagram Live stream which caused a furore.“That is exactly what they are,” she continued, referring to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centres holding immigrants attempting to cross the US-Mexico border, where at least 24 people, including six children, have died during the Trump administration. “They are concentration camps.”Immediately anticipating backlash, the Democrat from the Bronx waved off those who aren’t “bothered” by the camps, saying: “I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that ‘never again’ means something.”“The fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalised practice in the ‘Home of the Free’ is extraordinarily disturbing, and we need to do something about it,” she said.“A presidency that creates concentration camps is fascist," she added, "and it’s very difficult to sa...
