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InfoWars: Alex Jones Interviews Donald Trump - December 2, 2015
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Did AOC stage a photo shoot to protest children in cages?
CLAIM
Calling into question Ocasio-Cortez's Instagram remarks about fearing for her life during the insurrection, conservative commentator and activist Candace Owens tweeted Wednesday that people should "please never forget the time that @AOC staged a photo shoot dressed in all white at a parking lot to spread lies about immigrant children in cages."
CONCLUSION
Owens' false claims were debunked in 2019, when they were made by others. Ocasio-Cortez didn't stage a phony photo shoot. She was photographed, by photojournalists, as she participated in a 2018 protest on a road outside a tent city shelter in Texas that was used to detain migrant children, including some the Trump administration had separated from their parents. While the protesters many of whom wore all white were not permitted to walk right up to the tents at the Tornillo facility, it is inaccurate to say they were "at a parking lot."
EVIDENCE
Ocasio-Cortez made the trip to Texas days before she became a national name by defeating a high-ranking incumbent congressman in a Democratic primary in New York. The photos of Ocasio-Cortez looking emotional during the protest did not go viral until a year later, when Texas photojournalist Ivan Pierre Aguirre tweeted some of his shots from his work that day.
"For (Owens) to say it was a staged photo shoot makes me upset because that questions me as a professional photojournalist. To this day I have never spoken to AOC. I didn't talk to her that day or before the photos. I just saw a moment and started to make photos as I am wired to do," Aguirre said in an email to CNN on Thursday.
Aguirre also emphasized that they were not standing beside a "parking lot." Another photojournalist said the same to PolitiFact in 2019.
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October 22, 2020
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