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Senator Lindsey Graham criticized Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a newly elected New York congressman, for comparing Central American asylum seekers from the migrant caravan to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
"I recommend that she visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC," said Graham, Republican of South Carolina. tweeted on monday. "This could help to better understand the differences between the Holocaust and the caravan in Tijuana."
Graham was responding to a tweet sent by Ocasio-Cortez, in which she compared groups of previous refugees – including Jews from the Second World War – to current migrants fleeing Central America.
"To ask to be considered a refugee and to ask for the status is not a crime", Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Sunday. "It was not for Jewish families fleeing Germany. It was not for targeted families fleeing Rwanda. It was not for communities fleeing a war-torn Syria. And this is not the case for those fleeing violence in Central America. "
Tensions along the southern border of the United States intensified on Sunday. Border patrol agents fired tear gas at migrants as they attempted to enter the United States near the San Ysidro crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.
The United States suspended all crossing points in San Ysidro on Sunday morning as border services officers clashed with migrants.
Ocasio-Cortez responded to Graham's critics in another tweet on Monday.
"The interest of such a museum is to bring its lessons today" she wrote. "This administration has imprisoned children and violated human rights. Perhaps we should stop pretending that authoritarianism + violence is a historical event and not a growing force. "
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