Even some of the biggest supporters of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) think she went a little too far in sharing what many believe are “staged” images from a trip to El Paso, Texas, back in 2018.
The images, shared by photographer Ivan Pierre Aguirre, originally were from a protest held at the Tornillo detention center. Yet rather than show allegedly suffering children or deplorable conditions, they simply show images of a forlorn future congresswoman, dressed in her best Sunday whites and looking as if her puppy ran away from home.
“Before [Ocasio-Cortez] hit the national stage … she took time [away from] her campaign [and] came [down] to [Tornillo] to protest the [tent city] housing [of] migrant children,” Aguirre wrote. “I made these previously unpublished [photos] a [year] ago today.”
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The New York socialist shared the images with her millions of followers, saying: “I’ll never forget this, because it was the moment I saw with my own eyes that the America I love was becoming a nation that steals refugee children from their parents [and] caged them.”Volume 0%
The images are ridiculously dramatic and what many followers quickly chastised as “staged.” – READ MORE