Ocasio-Cortez Claims Border Patrol Forced Illegal Immigrants to Drink Water From Toilet, Agents Respond

Ocasio-Cortez Claims Border Patrol Forced Illegal Immigrants to Drink Water From Toilet, Agents Respond
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is swarmed by the media after touring the Clint, TX Border Patrol Facility housing children in Clint, Texas, on July 1, 2019. Christ Chavez/Getty Images
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has come out of her recent tour at a border patrol detention facility in Texas with a series of new allegations on the treatment of illegal immigrants. Agents have now responded to her claims.

The freshman congresswoman made the allegations in a social media post on July 1 after visiting a facility in El Paso, where she said, “Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets.”