Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday called for “reparations” for some migrant families and called the conditions at the border “barbaric” and “horrifying”.

During a virtual town hall Wednesday night, the self-described democratic socialist claimed that families who were separated under former President Donald Trump are “owed reparations. Period.” Although, she didn’t specify how much money the reparations should amount to.

Moreover, Ocasio-Cortez condemned the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis.

“As we’ve seen there are arrivals and undocumented children–rather unaccompanied children that have come at the border and this had lead to completely inhumane and unacceptable, horrifying conditions of children in CBP [Customs and Border Protection] custody. And it’s unacceptable and it’s horrifying,” the congresswoman said.

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When the administration opened the first facility for migrant children back in February, she criticized the move, saying at the time: “This is not okay, never has been okay, never will be okay – no matter the administration or party.”

Wednesday night, Ocasio-Cortez also said what’s going on at overcrowded migrant detention facilities is “a result of the fact that we have built our immigration system on the same principles and scaffolding as our carceral system.”

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“The fact that this keeps happening over and over and over again is a political failure by both parties,” she said.

However, the congresswoman added that she didn’t want to draw “false equivalents” between the actions of the Biden and Trump administrations

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“What is happening here is not the same as what happened during the Trump administration where they took babies out of the arms of mothers and deported their families and permanently traumatized these children,” Ocasio-Cortez said, going on to say that President Joe Biden’s policies toward families are “simply not the same” as Trump’s.

“Both are these things are barbaric and wrong, but when you rip a baby out of hands of a mother, you cannot draw the same comparison and anyone who is trying to do that is doing a profound disservice to the cause of justice,” she added.

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Ocasio-Cortez mostly blamed the crisis on U.S. foreign policy for worsening the situations in Central American nations from where migrants are fleeing instead of outright blaming Biden, arguing he’s trying to fix the situation.

“I’ve been in contact with the Biden Administration personally. What is different is they’re trying to figure out,” she said. “How to find the resources to end his problem.”

“I don’t want to excuse any of this,” the congresswoman said of Biden’s policies. “We should be doing better by now.”

Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks came one day after she was widely ridiculed for telling her supporters to refrain from describing the record number of migrants arriving at the border a “surge,” claiming such use of the word pushes a “white supremacist idea-philosophy.”

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