Marjorie Taylor Greene said Democrat should be 'shamed by everyone' in 2019 for comparing migrant camps to the Holocaust
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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who is under fire for likening vaccine requirements to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany, once harshly condemned comparisons of migrant detention camps to the Holocaust as an "embarrassment to our country" that "should be shamed by everyone."
The comments, made in a since-deleted Facebook live from summer 2019 that was saved by CNN's KFile, were in response to remarks made by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York in which she compared migrant detention facilities to concentration camps. "She should be shamed by everyone. That she's actually using those terms and making that comparison," Greene said. "And I think it's an embarrassment to our country, that we actually have a congresswoman that would do such a thing. And I'm calling her out big time.Looking to shore up Latino votes in Nevada and Arizona for his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden is on the verge of soon following up last week’s executive action aimed at curbing border crossings with another move focused on providing legal status for long-term undocumented immigrants married to American citizens and without criminal records.
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