Ocasio-Cortez says US runs 'concentration camps' at border

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday defended her accusation that the United States was operating "concentration camps" on its southern border, drawing ferocious criticism from Republicans who said she demeaned Jews murdered in the Holocaust."The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are," Ocasio-Cortez, widely known as AOC, said in a lengthy live post on Instagram."The fact that concentration camps are now an institutiona