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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 28, 2019, 12:19:47 am
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Jake Tapper asks AOC if detention centers under Obama were 'concentration camps'
by Julio Rosas
| June 27, 2019 05:32 PM
CNN anchor Jake Tapper pressed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about her recent comments comparing migrant detention centers to concentration camps and how there has been backlash.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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@AOC
Last week, we called the concentration camps at the border for what they are.
In the week since:
- Acting director of Customs & Border Patrol resigned
- Bank of America announced they will stop financing for-profit immigrant detention & private prisons.
Words matter. https://twitter.com/maketheroadny/status/1143962030954700802 (https://twitter.com/maketheroadny/status/1143962030954700802) …
Make the Road NY 🦋 @MaketheRoadNY
#BREAKING: Bank of America will stop financing private prison & immigrant detention companies!
This follows huge grassroots pressure nationwide on banks to stop bankrolling the industry. The dominoes keep falling!#BackersofHate #FamiliesBelongTogetherhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-26/bank-of-america-will-stop-lending-to-private-prison-companies …
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3:45 PM - Jun 26, 2019
In an interview Thursday, Tapper asked if the New York Democratic congresswoman called the centers "concentration camps" while Barack Obama was president.
"Well, at the time, I was working in a restaurant, but I do — I absolutely was outspoken against Obama’s immigration policies and the detention of families then. I think it’s a remarkably consistent position, and I'm not here to defend wrong actions just because they happened under a Democratic administration. I’m here to speak truth to power. If it’s wrong, it’s wrong, and I frankly don’t care what president does it," Ocasio-Cortez said.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jake-tapper-asks-aoc-if-detention-centers-under-obama-were-concentration-camps (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jake-tapper-asks-aoc-if-detention-centers-under-obama-were-concentration-camps)