{UAH} Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: Detained migrants being told to 'drink out of toilets'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Mondaydescribed the abysmal conditions she and other members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and other House Democrats saw after visiting two immigration detention facilities in Texas, and said she'd learned that Customs and Border Patrol officers told detained women to "drink out of the toilets."

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said that border patrol agents were keeping migrant women in their cells with no food or water and treated them poorly.

She tweeted: "After I forced myself into a cell w/ women & began speaking to them, one of them described their treatment at the hands of officers as 'psychological warfare' — waking them at odd hours for no reason, calling them wh*res, etc... Tell me what about that is due to a 'lack of funding'?"

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