GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw Daniel CrenshawSecond night of GOP convention outdraws Democrats' event with 19.4 million viewers GOP sticks to convention message amid uproar over Blake shooting The Hill's Convention Report: Mike and Karen Pence set to headline third night of convention MORE (Texas) on Tuesday slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezOn The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline McCarthy says there will be a peaceful transition if Biden wins Anxious Democrats amp up pressure for vote on COVID-19 aid MORE (D-N.Y.) after she compared the Trump administration's detention centers to concentration camps, saying the remark represented a "deep ignorance" of the Holocaust.

"Clearly I need to explain that, in concentration camps, people are unjustly sought out and confined. This isn’t what is happening at the border," Crenshaw said on Twitter. "Migrants are illegally crossing our border. Most are asylum seekers, thus pending trial, so your expert definition doesn’t apply."

He added that the congresswoman's comments revealed a "total disregard for our sovereignty & a deep ignorance that belittles the horrors of the Holocaust."