Rep. Ocasio-Cortez describes the conditions she and other members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus witnessed after visiting two immigration detention facilities in Texas, including CBP officers telling a detained women to 'drink out of the toilets.'
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“I see why CBP officers were being so physically and sexually threatening towards me,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. “Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets.”Two Democrats from Texas, Reps. Joaquín Castro, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Veronica Escobar, a freshman representative of the Hispanic Caucus, were also part of the group that toured immigration detention facilities in El Paso and Clint, Texas.
"We came today and we saw that the system is still broken," Castro said at a press conference after their tour."We are very concerned about the conditions in which people are being kept," he said, as he and the other lawmakers were trying to speak above the din of hecklers shouting,"America First!" Castro corroborated Ocasio-Cortez's tweets, stating that the group encountered a group of around 15 mothers — some of whom had been housed in the facility for more than 50 days — living in"indefensible" conditions.
"When we went into the cell, it was clear the water was not running," Castro said."One of the women said she was told by an agent to drink water out of the toilet. These are the conditions folks are facing."I see why CBP officers were being so physically &sexually threatening towards me.This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.
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