AOC: There’s No ‘Surge’ at the Border Because the Children Are Not ‘Insurgents’

TRANSCRIPT:

OCASIO-CORTEZ: “They want to say, ‘What about the surge?’ Well, first of all, just gut check, stop. Anyone who is using the term ‘surge’ around you consciously is trying to invoke a militaristic frame. And that’s a problem because these — this is not a surge, these are children, and they are not insurgents, and we are not being invaded. Which, by the way, is a white supremacist idea, philosophy. The idea that if an other is coming in the population, that this is like an invasion of who we are.”

(Via the Daily Caller)