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AOC continues to rip Liz Cheney over concentration camp remarks

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday evening continued to tear into Rep. Liz Cheney — one of many Republican House colleagues who called the New York Democrat out for equating immigrant detention centers on the US-Mexico border to concentration camps.

Earlier on Tuesday, Cheney, of Wyoming, begged Ocasio-Cortez to “spend just a few minutes learning” the history of the World War II genocide, tweeting that “6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this.”

Ocasio-Cortez shot back at Cheney minutes after her posting.

​”Hey Rep. Cheney, since you’re so eager to ‘educate me,’ I’m curious: What do YOU call building mass camps of people being detained without a trial? How would you dress up DHS’s mass separation of thousands children at the border from their parents?”

Cheney suggested that the first-term congresswoman start with the testimony of Holocaust survivors compiled by the organization Yad Vashem and the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel.

Hours later, Ocasio-Cortez came at Cheney again, citing the lawmaker’s original tweet.

“Also @Liz_Cheney, the fact that you employed the horrifying word ‘exterminated’ here (co-opting the language of the oppressor) tells us that it’s *you* that needs to brush up on your reading,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Hope you enjoy defending concentration camps. I won’t back down fighting against them.”

Ocasio-Cortez also retweeted comments from multiple people, including historians, siding with her assessment of the conditions on the border.

She also went after the acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Mark Morgan, for calling her comments “completely inappropriate,” “reckless,” “irresponsible” and “misinformed” in an interview with The Hill.

“Ah yes, because history knows that people who run concentration camp systems almost always acknowledge to the public what they’re doing,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

The comments came after a video of Ocasio-Cortez ​aired on politicsnowadays’ Instagram page that showed her accusing the Trump administration of running concentration camps on the southern border, calling the president “fascist” and using the phrase “never again,” which is associated with the Holocaust.