Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

How many migrant women has Kellyanne Conway touched? Hugged? Sat on a concrete floor with? Actually listened to? The answer is none. Her actions show she doesn’t believe all human beings are worthy of basic dignity. That‘s why she defends & muddies the clear and indefensible. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

It is important to note that many of these children speak indigenous languages. Some I met were budding trilingual (speak K’iche’, Spanish & learning English). We are caging indigenous people. (HHS shelters, if kids can get to them, have translation lines they call to help.) — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @KatzOnEarth: The Trumpist protesters were trying their best to pretend they were pro-immigrant and diversity, but their mask disintegra… — PolitiTweet.org

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And now CBP is pushing easily disprovable lies about members of Congress. Truly nuts. And to think this week the GOP & Dem “Problem Solvers Caucus” fought to eliminate ALL accountability amendments from funding. They just wrote a multi-billion dollar blank check for misconduct. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

When you pair: - 9,500 current + former CBP officers are part of a violently racist & sexually violent secret Facebook group - Corroborating accounts of abuse - CBP couldn’t control their own officers for a Congressional tour What else do you call that but a rogue agency? — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

I can’t understate how disturbing it was that CBP officers were openly disrespectful of the Congressional tour. If officers felt comfortable violating agreements in front of their *own* management & superiors, that tells us the agency has lost all control of their own officers. — PolitiTweet.org

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Hey, @kilmeade: What was the last “party” you went to where you: - Were locked in a cage under armed guard - Drank out of a toilet - & given food of such poor nutritional value, for so long, that it gave you mouth sores? — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @DebbiAlmontaser: America has no idea what’s happening at its borders. These pics made me shudder in my own skin. Now I can understand w… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @ABCPolitics: Rep. Ayanna Pressley: "I learned a long time ago that when change happens it's either because people see the light or they… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @MotherJones: "No child should ever be separated from their parent. No child should ever be taken from their family. They should be give… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @nowthisnews: ‘What we saw today was unconscionable.’ — @AOC spoke out against migrant detention camps after witnessing them firsthand h… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

And to these CBP officers saying they felt “threatened” by me - They were literally discussing making a GoFundMe for an officer who attacked my on my tour. They confiscated my phone, and they were all armed. I’m 5’4”. They’re just upset I exposed their inhumane behavior. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JoaquinCastrotx: This moment captures what it’s like for women in CBP custody to share a cramped cell—some held for 50 days—for them to… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Pro-concentration camp & Pro-Trump protestors tried to drown out our accounts. They yelled at Rashida Tlaib about pork when she talked about facilities. They called Joaquin Castro “traitor” for denouncing family separation. @AyannaPressley was heroic, speaking truth to vitriol. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s another photo from inside taken by @JoaquinCastrotx, where we’re trying to comfort women trapped in cells. This woman was telling me about her daughters who were taken from her - she doesn’t know where they’ve taken them. We held & listened to them. They were distraught. https://t.co/ca1GwKfDfU — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

These officers felt brazen in there. While mgmt was telling us it was a “secure facility” where *members of Congress* had to check their phones, we caught officers trying to sneak photos, laughing. CBP’s “good” behavior was toxic. Imagine how they treat the women trapped inside. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @saikatc: Imagine all your hateful trolls online, but with guns. Imagine walking into a fenced area full of them. No exit. You don't get… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Even if they let you in, these women told us CBP did a lot of “cleaning up” before we arrived. They were moved into that room from outside tents before our arrival. They said they’d gone 15 days w/o a shower, & were allowed to start bathing 4 days ago (when visit was announced). — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Members of Congress had to surrender their phones before today’s CBP trip. But @JoaquinCastrotx was able to get a device in. This photo is of the women we spoke to. We asked their permission to photograph - they said yes, please share what’s happening. — PolitiTweet.org

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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. https://t.co/E0yPQ3o7CC — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

This was in fact the type of toilet we saw in the cell. Except there was just one, and the sink portion was not functioning - @AyannaPressley smartly tried to open the faucet, and nothing came out. So the women were told they could drink out of the bowl. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @KatzOnEarth: @Anna_Giaritelli I’ve been outside all the facilities she’s touring today around El Paso, and according to everything I’ve… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RepDean: Just left the first CBP facility. The conditions are far worse than we ever could have imagined. 15 women in their 50s- 60s… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RepJoeKennedy: Spent the morning in TX at Clint and El Paso detention facilities. Big takeaways -- 1) @CBP was very resistant to Congre… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RashidaTlaib: We can't just focus on the children anymore. I met grandmothers, mothers and fathers who are suffering. This is devastati… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @johniadarola: More Than 140 Holocaust, genocide experts think @AOC should be allowed to call migrant detention centers "concentration c… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @renato_mariotti: “A cell meant for a maximum of 35 held 155 adult males with only one toilet and sink. The cell was so crowded the men… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

CBP made us check our phones. But one woman slipped me this packet to take with me. It says “shampoo,” but she told me that this is all they give women to wash their entire body. Nothing else. Some women’s hair was falling out. Others had gone 15 days without taking a shower. https://t.co/OsaKS0YD9a — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

What’s haunting is that the women I met with today told me in no uncertain terms that they would experience retribution for telling us what they shared. They all began sobbing - out of fear of being punished, out of sickness, out of desperation, lack of sleep, trauma, despair. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @JordanUhl: The person who is pushing the “@AOC threatened Border Patrol” rumor is the same person who pushed the bogus “prayer rugs at… — PolitiTweet.org