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Omar Compares Migrant Shelters to Dungeons Used in Slave Trade

posted onSeptember 15, 2019
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Article snippet: A video surfaced Saturday evening showing the far-left “Squad” member speaking to a group and comparing migrant shelters in the U.S. to dungeons used during the African slave trade: “We arrived in Ghana, and one of the first things we did was to visit what some would say is a castle, but they were dungeons,” Omar said. “And I remember as we arrived one of the guides let us into the female dungeon, and he started giving us a description of what was– what used to take place as the Africans were being kept, were held there as captives,” she continued. “And every time he gave a description I had this sort of flashback to an image that I saw on TV in Libya where you had Africans in a small room that were now captives, and that image was from today,” she added. Omar explained that she could not help but notice a striking similarity between the dungeons and the migrant detention facilities used in the U.S. today: Members of the “Squad” have been under fire in recent months for mischaracterizing migrant facilities, openly comparing them to “concentration camps”: Omar’s recent remarks, however, mark the first time a far-left member of the “Squad” publicly compared the shelters to dungeons used during the African slave trade. Link to the full article to read more

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