Steven Senne/ASSOCIATED PRESS Actor George Takei speaks May 8, 2018, about his experiences in U.S. internment camps during World War II at an appearance at Boston Public Library.

It appears that George Takei and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are on the same page. The freshman representative said in a tweet earlier this week that the Trump administration had “established concentration camps along the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying.” Ocasio-Cortez’s comments immediately drew criticism from conservatives as well as Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer, who claimed during his Tuesday broadcast that she owes “every Jew on the planet an apology.” In response, the “Star Trek” actor tweeted about his own experience with such conditions. Takei, who was incarcerated as a child at Rohwer War Relocation Center and Tule Lake War Relocation Center for being Japanese American during World War II, wrote that he knows “what concentration camps are.” “I was inside two of them, in America,” he tweeted. “And yes, we are operating such camps again.”

I know what concentration camps are. I was inside two of them, in America. And yes, we are operating such camps again. — George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 19, 2019