concentration camps
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Bill de Blasio Talks ICE, Sex Work Decriminalization and Why Black People Should Support His Campaign
New York City Mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Bill de Blasio said Donald Trump won the 2016 Election because people stayed home instead of hitting the polls, not because the majority of the country is racist (03:25). “Trump won not by bringing out a racist majority,” de Blasio said. “I do not believe there is…
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15-Year-Old Girl Says a Border Patrol Agent Sexually Assaulted Her at an Arizona Camp
A 15-year-old migrant girl says a border agent sexually assaulted her during what was supposed to be a routine pat down at a Yuma, Arizona facility. First reported by NBC News, the allegation is one among dozens of reported incidents collected by government case managers accusing border patrol agents of assault, retaliation, and routine humiliation…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kellyanne Conway Trade Barbs Over Conditions at Southern Border
After what by all accounts was a harrowing visit to immigrant detention facilities, the last thing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) probably had time for was commentary from the peanut gallery, aka someone who wasn’t there: in this case, one Kellyanne Conway. On Tuesday, one day after Ocasio-Cortez and a group of other Democrats witnessed what…
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‘This Is About the Preservation of Our Humanity’: Democrats Speak Out About Vile Conditions, Racist Rhetoric at Border Facilities
Democrats visiting three detention facilities in Texas on Monday had to raise their voices—despite having microphones—to be heard over the shouts and heckling of pro-Donald Trump, anti-immigrant groups. “Keep yelling. This is very appropriate. Vile rhetoric for vile actions. Hateful rhetoric for hateful behavior. Racist words and venom for racist policies,” Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.)…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Draws GOP Wrath After Slamming Immigrant Detention Centers as Modern-Day ‘Concentration Camps’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling out the dire situation for immigrants being held at the United States’ southern border in federal detention centers as being akin to the concentration camps of the Holocaust—and she doesn’t care who may be butt-hurt about the comparison. “The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border, and…