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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made waves in the US by referring to migrant detention centres near the Mexican border as “concentration camps”.

The New York congresswoman stood by her comments in the face of blowback from conservatives and some Jewish groups, who accused her of minimalising the Holocaust.

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