Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blasted former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka Sebastian Lukacs GorkaSunday shows preview: Trump, lawmakers weigh in on COVID-19, masks and school reopenings amid virus surge Trump taps Gorka for national security advisory board Sunday shows preview: Coronavirus poses questions about school safety; Trump commutes Roger Stone sentence MORE after he called her “an insult to intelligent … humans everywhere.”

Ocasio-Cortez drew backlash, mainly from some allies of President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE, after comparing Central American migrants seeking asylum to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.

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“You were forced out of the Trump Admin for saying white supremacists were 'not the problem' days before Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville killed 3 people,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted at Gorka. “Pretty sure we’re on the right side of history if you’re my opposition.”

“This is not about atrocity. It’s about how we get there,” she added.

You were forced out of the Trump Admin for saying white supremacists were “not the problem” days before Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville killed 3 people.



Pretty sure we’re on the right side of history if you’re my opposition.



This is not about atrocity. It’s about how we get there. https://t.co/vJJvrpp5SA — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 27, 2018

Gorka, who left the White House in August 2017, called Ocasio-Cortez’s original comments “disgraceful.”

“There is no genocide occurring South of our border targeting millions for death or shipping whole families to labor camps for extermination,” he wrote. “You truly are an insult to intelligent and empathic humans everywhere.”

Your comparison @Ocasio2018 is disgraceful.



There is no genocide occurring South of our border targeting millions for death or shipping whole families to labor camps for extermination.



You truly are an insult to intelligent and empathic humans everywhere. https://t.co/aYUCuuIsQo — Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) November 26, 2018

Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday criticized the United States’ treatment of asylum-seeking migrants at the border, tweeting: “Asking to be considered a refugee & applying for status isn’t a crime.”

“It wasn’t for Jewish families fleeing Germany,” she wrote. “It wasn’t for targeted families fleeing Rwanda. It wasn’t for communities fleeing war-torn Syria. And it isn’t for those fleeing violence in Central America.”