The Conditions in Border Patrol Facilities Are Beyond Horrifying
Last month, lawyers conducting welfare visits to Texas Customs and Border Protection facilities revealed that detained migrants are being held in conditions more appalling and inhumane than most could have imagined. They found filthy, cramped women and children who had been deprived of basic hygiene and forced to sleep on concrete floors. Physician Dolly Lucio Sevier wrote in her medical declaration that the conditions could be compared to those of “torture facilities.”
On Monday, a delegation of lawmakers visited border facilities in El Paso and Clint. Among them were Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), who described the conditions in detail on their Twitter feeds and while speaking to the media after their visits. What they saw was no less horrifying than what was described by the lawyers who visited CBP facilities last month. According to both Ocasio-Cortez and Castro migrants are even being forced to drink out of toilets.
“When we went into the cell, it was clear the water was not running,” said Castro of the facility in El Paso. “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.” Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) posted a video to Twitter in which she claimed one migrant woman told her that a border patrol agent said that “if she wanted water, just to drink from the toilet.”
Ocasio-Cortez replied to a picture of a bathroom setup similar to what she saw while visiting the facility in Clint. “The women were told they could drink out of the bowl,” she tweeted.
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