Despite the claims that the ‘humane’ shelters where migrant families would not be separated, are overcrowded, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that they do have enough space to take in more people.
Ocasio-Cortez posted photos on Twitter witnessing the conditions in the migrant facilities, “as Congress members toured border facilities in Texas,” The Hill reported.
“Meanwhile, one refrain we‘ve heard is that people are overcrowded in CBP concentration camps because the shelters (which are humane places where families can stay together) are full. So we went to a shelter. They said that wasn’t true at all. Only 150/500 spots were filled,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote with the photo of the migrant facility attached.
According to the freshman representative, one woman at the border reported that the treatment by CBP officers was a “psychological warfare”, adding that some officers told women to drink water from the toilet.
“Tell me what about that is due to a “lack of funding?” Ocasio-Cortez said.
The Hill reached out to CBP for comment.
Representative Madeleine Dean shared similar report after the tour, saying conditions are “far worse than we could have imagined.”
Dean tweeted 15 women in their 50s and 60s were sleeping in a “small concrete cell” with no running water.
“This is a human rights crisis,” she said.
Representative Judy Chu tweeted officers told women to drink from toilets.
Representative Rashida Tlaib tweeted detainees haven’t been given “real food” or access to showers.
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