Chuck Todd: Ocasio-Cortez's concentration camp remarks do border detainees 'tremendous disservice'

Source: The Hill | June 19, 2019 | Justin Wise

NBC “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd on Wednesday condemned Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) comments comparing the Trump administration’s detention centers near the southern border to concentration camps, saying the remarks were a “tremendous disservice” to the detainees.

“You can call our government’s detention of migrants many things, depending on how you see it. It’s a stain on our nation maybe, a necessary evil to others, a deal with untenable situation perhaps. But do you know what you can’t call it,” Todd said on MSNBC’s “Meet The Press Daily,” before transitioning to a clip of the freshman lawmaker stating that Trump was “running concentration camps on our southern border.”

Todd noted that Ocasio-Cortez “tried to make a distinction between concentration camps and Nazi death camps” following criticism.

“Fair enough,” Todd said. “But congresswoman, tens of thousands were also brutalized, starved, and ultimately died in concentration camps. If you want to criticize the shameful treatment of people at our border fine, you’ll have plenty of company. But be careful comparing them to Nazi concentration camps, because they’re not at all comparable.”

Todd went on to denounce Democratic lawmakers for not forcefully condemning Ocasio-Cortez’s position, suggesting that their lack of criticism was because they “don’t want to get criticized on Twitter.”

“Why are we so sheepish calling out people we agree with politically these days?” Todd asked, before acknowledging that Ocasio-Cortez “cares deeply about what’s happening at the border.”

“But she just did the people there a tremendous disservice by distracting from their plight,” he concluded. “She said she didn’t use those words lightly. Well neither did.”

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