‘We are not being invaded’: AOC wants Americans to stop calling U.S. migrant crisis a ‘surge’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says anyone using the word “surge” when it comes to the crisis at the US southern border is attempting to invoke a “militaristic frame” – saying “they are not insurgents and we are not being invaded”. “They want to say ‘but what about the surge?’” she told her millions of Instagram followers.  “First of all, just gut check, stop. Anyone who’s using the term ‘surge’ around you consciously is trying to invoke a militaristic frame. And that’s a problem because this is not a surge, these are children and they are not insurgents and we are not…