Oversight
Media Pundits Should Worry About Trump’s Awful Treatment of Migrant Children — Not Semantics
AOC is right: Horror stories from child detention centers show they really are concentration camps
As new horror stories continue to emerge on a near-daily basis from inside the Trump administration’s child detention centers on the border, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been proven right in her comments about “concentration camps” — even as some politicians and pundits continue to criticize her.
It all started last week, when Ocasio-Cortez spoke for many Americans when she used the term to refer to the Trump administration’s child detention facilities, where hundreds of children have been separated from their parents and held in squalid conditions for indefinite periods of time.
Instead of taking a deeper look at the deplorable conditions these children are living in and questioning why no one is being held accountable, many pundits and members of the media opted to attack AOC over semantics. Leading the charge was Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, who claimed that AOC was doing the children at the border a “tremendous disservice” by using such a loaded phrase and suggested Democrats should condemn her.
