JORGE RAMOS, HOST, AL PUNTO: This has been a very intense week for 29-year-old Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She received a great deal of criticism after saying that detention centers for the undocumented are like concentration camps. But she didn’t back down. She also continues to push for an impeachment process against President Trump, with whom she sometimes exchanges Twitter attacks. Prior to her arrival in congress, I had the opportunity to speak to her extensively in her district, in Queens and in the Bronx, in New York, and there we discussed her five big ideas. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t afraid to speak her mind.
U.S. REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): The United States is running concentration camps on our Southern border, and that is exactly what they are. A presidency that creates concentration camps is fascist.
RAMOS: These remarks triggered harsh reactions from several groups that condemned her words. For example, Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney wrote: “Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory.”