Despite criticism from Holocaust survivors, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., continues to use the term "concentration camps" to describe the federal detention centers temporarily housing the massive wave of migrants who cross the border illegally to apply for asylum.
Ocasio-Cortez's chief target of criticism has been President Trump, but as President Obama's former ICE chief pointed out this week, the detention centers existed during the Obama administration.
So CNN's Jake Tapper asked the self-described democratic socialist congresswoman if she called the centers "concentration camps" while Obama was president.
"Well, at the time, I was working in a restaurant," she began. "But I do – I absolutely was outspoken against Obama's immigration policies and the detention of families then.
She insisted she's held a "remarkably consistent position."
"I'm not here to defend wrong actions just because they happened under a Democratic administration," Ocasio-Cortez said. "I'm here to speak truth to power. If it's wrong, it’s wrong, and I frankly don't care what president does it."
On Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez praised a walkout by employees of online furniture retailer Wayfair from company headquarters in Boston to protest the sale of furniture to an illegal-alien detention facility in Texas.
The congresswoman tweeted "this is what solidarity looks like."
She said the Wayfair "workers couldn't stomach they were making beds to cage children."
However, President Obama's top official in charge of removing illegal aliens confirmed Wednesday at a conference on immigration that the "cages" used to detain juveniles who are in the country illegally were established by the Obama administration.
"I've been to that facility, where they talk about cages. That facility was built under President Obama under (Homeland Security) Secretary Jeh Johnson," said Thomas Homan, Obama's executive associate director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"I was there ... when it was built," he said, explaining the facility has chainlink fences but no "cages."
After months of denying there was a border crisis, Democrats voted Wednesday in favor of an emergency bill to alleviate the lack of basic necessities available at immigrant detention centers. The Senate passed a bipartisan bill after rejecting a House version.