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Ilhan Omar Compares Migrant Detention Centers to Slave Camps in Africa During the Slave Trade

‘And so of a story that happened 400 years ago, I constantly had this reminder, this horrifying image, of many of the things that were taking place there in that dungeon now taking place’
By Grabien Staff

OMAR: "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. 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, 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. And every time he would talk about the separation of the kids and — from their parents and how they would have young girls be in the same dungeons as the women or they would have young boys be in the same dungeons as the men, I couldn’t stop seeing images of the current camps we have here at our borders in the United States. And so of a story that happened 400 years ago, I constantly had this reminder, this horrifying image of many of the things that were taking place there in that dungeon now taking place whether it is in the shores of North Africa or in the shores of the United States."

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