Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew ire from Trump supporters after she tweeted that the U.S. has established 'concentration camps' along the southern border.
The freshman representative said in a tweet earlier this week that the Trump administration had “established concentration camps along the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying.”
In response, the “Star Trek” actor tweeted about his own experience with such conditions. Takei, who was incarcerated as a child at Rohwer War Relocation Center and Tule Lake War Relocation Center for being Japanese American during World War II, wrote that he knows “what concentration camps are.” I know what concentration camps are. I was inside two of them, in America. And yes, we are operating such camps again.
“A concentration camp is a place where civilians are confined for military or political purposes based on their identity. As prison camps outside the criminal justice system, designed to detain Japanese Americans based solely on their racial and ethnic identity, sites like Manzanar and Tule Lake were absolutely U.S. concentration camps,” she said.
“To avoid repeating the mistakes of our past, we must be able to see them clearly ― and that means calling Trump’s concentration camps for migrant children and families exactly what they are.”
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