'This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress,' Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a series of tweets describing her visit to a detention facility.
Freshman Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed Customs and Border Protection officers ordered women to drink water out of toilets at a migrant detention center along the U.S.-Mexico border.
After leaving the first detention center, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that she could"see why CBP officers were being so physically & sexually threatening towards me." Hours before her visit, ProPublicathat a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents posted a vulgar drawing showing her engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant. In the group, agents also discussed making a GoFundMe page for officers to harm the freshman representative.
"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," Ocasio-Cortez wrote."Tell me what about that is due to a"lack of funding?"
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