Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[Patooka]

Yep, AOC is the real monster in this story. Once again Glenn Beck has nailed it.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

93-year-old Holocaust survivor wants AOC out of congress, given 'Nobel Prize in stupidity' for concentration camp comments.


CALEB HOWE
While Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and her friends in the media, are quintupling down on comparing American detention facilities to concentration camps, a survivor of the real concentration camps in Nazi Germany is livid, and speaking out.

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Ed Mosberg is 93 years old, and is one of the few people still alive who survived the Nazi camps. He lives in Morris Plains, NJ, and he spoke to the New York Post about the freshman congresswoman's comments.

"She should be removed from Congress. She's spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity," he said to the paper. "The people on the border aren't forced to be there — they go there on their own will. If someone doesn't know the difference, either they're playing stupid or they just don't care."

The thing this person who survived some horrific stuff doesn't understand is that the conditions these people are being subjected to would be against the Geneva Accords. These people are seeking asylum and the administration is quite fine with committing acts that dehumanize these people. Sure, the Trump Admin aren't Nazis, but once again, the US used "concentration camps" in WWI (Germans) and WWII (Japanese). And both of those (of those that also know of the prior) are considered ethically bankrupt actions by the Government.

No one should have to endure what the victims of the Holocaust endured. But nor should others have to endure what the Germans and Japanese did in the US in the first half of the 20th century. What the Nazis did isn't the basis for what is considered morally reprehensible.

 

[KeepTalking]

Even if he is right, it is irrelevant. Even if Japanese internment camps were referred to as "concentration camps" contemporaneously, since the Nazi atrocities became known, that term was forever linked with Nazi camps.
AOC is deliberately using that term because of its Nazi connections. She knows full well what she is doing, no matter the technicalities.

Derec is right. Since WW2 we can no longer use the term "concentration camp" to refer to anything other than a Nazi extermination camp. But that frees up the term "death camp" for use, since the new meaning of "concentration camp" makes it redundant. So, we should adjust our nomenclature, and call these modern not-concentration-camps "death camps". Thanks for the heads up, Derec.

 

[Toni]

93-year-old Holocaust survivor wants AOC out of congress, given 'Nobel Prize in stupidity' for concentration camp comments.


CALEB HOWE
While Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and her friends in the media, are quintupling down on comparing American detention facilities to concentration camps, a survivor of the real concentration camps in Nazi Germany is livid, and speaking out.

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Ed Mosberg is 93 years old, and is one of the few people still alive who survived the Nazi camps. He lives in Morris Plains, NJ, and he spoke to the New York Post about the freshman congresswoman's comments.

"She should be removed from Congress. She's spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity," he said to the paper. "The people on the border aren't forced to be there — they go there on their own will. If someone doesn't know the difference, either they're playing stupid or they just don't care."

The thing this person who survived some horrific stuff doesn't understand is that the conditions these people are being subjected to would be against the Geneva Accords. These people are seeking asylum and the administration is quite fine with committing acts that dehumanize these people. Sure, the Trump Admin aren't Nazis, but once again, the US used "concentration camps" in WWI (Germans) and WWII (Japanese). And both of those (of those that also know of the prior) are considered ethically bankrupt actions by the Government.

No one should have to endure what the victims of the Holocaust endured. But nor should others have to endure what the Germans and Japanese did in the US in the first half of the 20th century. What the Nazis did isn't the basis for what is considered morally reprehensible.

Just because the POTUS's daughter converted to Judaism and just because they don't wear armbands or swastikas (yet) doesn't mean they aren't Nazis. If it walks like a duck and all of that. Except for the name and a few other changes, the story's the same one as Neil Diamond would say.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

93-year-old Holocaust survivor wants AOC out of congress, given 'Nobel Prize in stupidity' for concentration camp comments.


CALEB HOWE
While Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and her friends in the media, are quintupling down on comparing American detention facilities to concentration camps, a survivor of the real concentration camps in Nazi Germany is livid, and speaking out.

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Ed Mosberg is 93 years old, and is one of the few people still alive who survived the Nazi camps. He lives in Morris Plains, NJ, and he spoke to the New York Post about the freshman congresswoman's comments.

"She should be removed from Congress. She's spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity," he said to the paper. "The people on the border aren't forced to be there — they go there on their own will. If someone doesn't know the difference, either they're playing stupid or they just don't care."

The thing this person who survived some horrific stuff doesn't understand is that the conditions these people are being subjected to would be against the Geneva Accords. These people are seeking asylum and the administration is quite fine with committing acts that dehumanize these people. Sure, the Trump Admin aren't Nazis, but once again, the US used "concentration camps" in WWI (Germans) and WWII (Japanese). And both of those (of those that also know of the prior) are considered ethically bankrupt actions by the Government.

No one should have to endure what the victims of the Holocaust endured. But nor should others have to endure what the Germans and Japanese did in the US in the first half of the 20th century. What the Nazis did isn't the basis for what is considered morally reprehensible.

Just because the POTUS's daughter converted to Judaism and just because they don't wear armbands or swastikas (yet) doesn't mean they aren't Nazis. If it walks like a duck and all of that. Except for the name and a few other changes, the story's the same one as Neil Diamond would say.

As I keep trying to say, they don't need to be Nazis to be bad people.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Even if he is right, it is irrelevant. Even if Japanese internment camps were referred to as "concentration camps" contemporaneously, since the Nazi atrocities became known, that term was forever linked with Nazi camps.
AOC is deliberately using that term because of its Nazi connections. She knows full well what she is doing, no matter the technicalities.

Derec is right. Since WW2 we can no longer use the term "concentration camp" to refer to anything other than a Nazi extermination camp. But that frees up the term "death camp" for use, since the new meaning of "concentration camp" makes it redundant. So, we should adjust our nomenclature, and call these modern not-concentration-camps "death camps". Thanks for the heads up, Derec.

The right-wing is already using the term death camps. They're using it as a scare tactic trying hard, but in reality they are non-existent FEMA camps not implemented by Democratic Presidents, like Operation Jade Helm or ObamaCare. Next non-existent death camp will be the ones that doctors have to create from Medicare for All implementation...

Democrats need to stop being so tepid and frightened over terminology. AOC is right. She doesn't have to apologize. Republicans have to apologize for what they are doing to children.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Even if he is right, it is irrelevant. Even if Japanese internment camps were referred to as "concentration camps" contemporaneously, since the Nazi atrocities became known, that term was forever linked with Nazi camps.
AOC is deliberately using that term because of its Nazi connections. She knows full well what she is doing, no matter the technicalities.

Derec is right. Since WW2 we can no longer use the term "concentration camp" to refer to anything other than a Nazi extermination camp. But that frees up the term "death camp" for use, since the new meaning of "concentration camp" makes it redundant. So, we should adjust our nomenclature, and call these modern not-concentration-camps "death camps". Thanks for the heads up, Derec.

The right-wing is already using the term death camps. They're using it as a scare tactic trying hard, but in reality they are non-existent FEMA camps not implemented by Democratic Presidents, like Operation Jade Helm or ObamaCare. Next non-existent death camp will be the ones that doctors have to create from Medicare for All implementation...

Democrats need to stop being so tepid and frightened over terminology. AOC is right. She doesn't have to apologize. Republicans have to apologize for what they are doing to children.

Maybe the correct way to respond is "I agree... the Trump Administration isn't being as bad as the Nazis. Congrats!"

 

[Worldtraveller]

She's correct even within the Nazi context. The Nazi camps weren't death camps on day one, it took years, nor were they all death camps.

Not even at the beginning were the concentration camps anything like these detention centers.
Hell, these detention centers are not even like the internment camps for Japanese. Big difference between detaining your citizens just because of their ethnicity and detaining mass migrants (and citizens of other countries like El Salvador or Honduras) who are inundating your border until you can adjudicate their claims (which is going slow because of sheer numbers).

Really? I don't see any difference aside from the absolute shameful inhumanity in separating young children from parents and then caging them and denying them warm beds, clean water, the ability to bathe or be bathed, education, health care, loving human contact.

Yeah, especially when it's been shown that we could house these people at a nice (as in 4-star or better) hotel and save money. As with everything else with the trumpkins, it's all about the cruelty, and the grifting.

 

[blastula]

ABC NEWS’S JONATHAN KARL: I’m sure you saw the exchange between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the issue of federal busing — federally mandated busing. Biden thought that was a bad policy; he tried to stop it. Kamala Harris said it was an important part of desegregation, including in her own experience. Where do you stand on that issue of federally mandated busing?

TRUMP: First of all, before we get into that, I thought that she was given too much credit. ... And as far as that, I will tell you in about four weeks, because we’re coming out with a certain policy that’s going to be very interesting and very surprising, I think, to a lot of people. Jennifer, do you have a question?

Don't you worry about blank, I'll worry about blank.

In trying to cover for not knowing what she was talking about... or apparently not knowing what happened in the US in the 60s and 70s... he actually exposes his 'I have a plan coming out on blank' bullshit. Else... yeah, the US would be "very surprised" if he did come out with a plan on busing.

But to be fair to the AOC obsessed... Trump is only a President, Ocasio Cortez is a freshman Representative which means she is in a much higher position of authority.

Yep, he went to his favorite go-to bluff/evasion "coming out in x weeks." He used to mostly say 2 weeks, lately it's 3 weeks or more. Notice also that in the second answer, 4 weeks has suddenly become 2 months. Greatest bullshitter of all time.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Don't you worry about blank, I'll worry about blank.

In trying to cover for not knowing what she was talking about... or apparently not knowing what happened in the US in the 60s and 70s... he actually exposes his 'I have a plan coming out on blank' bullshit. Else... yeah, the US would be "very surprised" if he did come out with a plan on busing.

But to be fair to the AOC obsessed... Trump is only a President, Ocasio Cortez is a freshman Representative which means she is in a much higher position of authority.

Yep, he went to his favorite go-to bluff/evasion "coming out in x weeks." He used to mostly say 2 weeks, lately it's 3 weeks or more. Notice also that in the second answer, 4 weeks has suddenly become 2 months. Greatest bullshitter of all time.

TRUMP: First of all, before we get into that, I thought that she was given too much credit. ... And as far as that, I will tell you in about four weeks, because we’re coming out with a certain policy that’s going to be very interesting and very surprising, I think, to a lot of people. Jennifer, do you have a question?

If I was Jennifer, I would have asked either: "What part of busing was Sen. Harris taking credit for in that she was bussed to school?" or "Are you saying that your administration is working on a policy to help desegregate the schools decades after they were desegregated?"

 

[lpetrich]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "We just landed in El Paso last night with several other members of Congress to tour migrant camp facilities. Meanwhile in McAllen, this is the scene (via @Reuters) https://t.co/Hoe0OHw8Vz" / Twitter noting Patrick Gilmore on Twitter: "U.S. Border Patrol migrant camp from above [url]https://t.co/QgN0yDIO62 via @Reuters" / Twitter[/url] noting U.S. Border Patrol migrant camp from above | Reuters.com
Concentration camps they are.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "This just broke: a secret Facebook group of 9,500 CBP officers discussed making a GoFundMe for officers to harm myself & Rep. Escobar during our visit to CBP facilities & mocked migrant deaths. This isn’t about “a few bad eggs.” This is a violent culture. https://t.co/SkFwThHElx" / Twitter noting Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes — ProPublica
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "9,500 CBP officers sharing memes about dead migrants and discussing violence and sexual misconduct towards members of Congress. How on earth can CBP’s culture be trusted to care for refugees humanely? PS I have no plans to change my itinerary & will visit the CBP station today." / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "There are 20,000 TOTAL Customs & Border Patrol agents in the US. 9,500 - almost HALF that number - are in a racist & sexually violent secret CBP Facebook group. They’re threatening violence on members of Congress. How do you think they’re treating caged children+families? https://t.co/AfDB50cgHQ" / Twitter noting Charles Ornstein on Twitter: "EXCLUSIVE: Members of a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants and posted a vulgar illustration depicting @AOC engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant https://t.co/ArddKcsllQ" / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Just left the 1st CBP facility. I see why CBP officers were being so physically &sexually threatening towards me. Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets. This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress." / Twitter
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Now I’ve seen the inside of these facilities. It’s not just the kids. It’s everyone. People drinking out of toilets, officers laughing in front of members Congress. I brought it up to their superiors. They said “officers are under stress & act out sometimes.” No accountability." / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "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. Tell me what about that is due to a “lack of funding?”" / Twitter
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Now I’m on my way to Clint, where the Trump admin was denying children toothpaste and soap. This has been horrifying so far. It is hard to understate the enormity of the problem. We’re talking systemic cruelty w/ a dehumanizing culture that treats them like animals." / Twitter
Even worse than many farm animals, I'm sure.

Judy Chu on Twitter: ""If you want water, just drink from a toilet." That's what border patrol told one thirsty woman we met on today's #DemsAtTheBorder trip. These are the same CBP personnel who threatened to throw burritos at members of Congress. Changes must be made. #DontLookAway https://t.co/dW34DRduDA" / Twitter
jordan on Twitter: "The person who is pushing the “@AOC threatened Border Patrol” rumor is the same person who pushed the bogus “prayer rugs at the border” piece. https://t.co/Xbs1Y7MKY7" / Twitter
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "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." / Twitter

 

[Derec]

Concentration camps they are.

No they are not. And besides, it is difficult to organize care for 100,000s of mass migrants who just show up on your border. Especially when politicians like AOC do not want to fund it.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "This just broke: a secret Facebook group of 9,500 CBP officers discussed making a GoFundMe for officers to harm myself & Rep. Escobar during our visit to CBP facilities & mocked migrant deaths.

For AOC to harm herself? How would they convince her to harm herself?

This isn’t about “a few bad eggs.” This is a violent culture. https://t.co/SkFwThHElx" / Twitter[/url] noting Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes — ProPublica

Oh please! It's just jokes.

AOC wants completely open borders to hispanic mass migration. That would be disastrous for US.

 

[Derec]

Yeah, especially when it's been shown that we could house these people at a nice (as in 4-star or better) hotel and save money. As with everything else with the trumpkins, it's all about the cruelty, and the grifting.

When you have security it ends up costing more. If these mass migrants are put in hotels, they can just walk out and disappear to sanctuary cities where it's very difficult to deport them again.

 

[lpetrich]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "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" / Twitter
Then a picture of a small packet of shampoo about 2in * 4in / 5cm * 10 cm in size (dimensions estimated from AOC's hand). That checking of phones accounts for lack of photographic evidence.

Renato Mariotti on Twitter: "“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 could not lie down to sleep.” https://t.co/DFCvaQxHcw" / Twitter noting Ken Dilanian on Twitter: "Exclusive: Conditions at El Paso border station were so bad that agents feared a riot [url]https://t.co/UAbose0wPC via @JuliaEAinsley @jacobsoboroff" / Twitter[/url]
John Iadarola on Twitter: "More Than 140 Holocaust, genocide experts think @AOC should be allowed to call migrant detention centers "concentration camps" https://t.co/38KRaFv6z4" / Twitter noting More Than 140 Holocaust, Genocide Experts Think Ocasio-Cortez Should Be Allowed to Call Migrant Detention Centers 'Concentration Camps'

Rashida Tlaib on Twitter: "We can't just focus on the children anymore. I met grandmothers, mothers and fathers who are suffering. This is devastating. The look in one father's eyes broke me. I can't look away. #CloseTheCamps" / Twitter
Rep. Joe Kennedy III on Twitter: "Spent the morning in TX at Clint and El Paso detention facilities. Big takeaways -- 1) @CBP was very resistant to Congressional oversight. They tried to restrict what we saw, take our phones, block photos and video. Atmosphere was contentious and uncooperative." / Twitter
Rep. Joe Kennedy III on Twitter: "@CBP 2) Facilities are wholly inadequate. Cells maxed to capacity, concrete floors...It felt jail-like. No way to keep a child or innocent human being. Group of 13 women from Cuba were in tears when we spoke with them." / Twitter
Rep. Joe Kennedy III on Twitter: "@CBP 3) The entire system is broken, rotten and rife with abuse. And Trump doubles down on it despite the growing horror -- child detention, metering, Remain in Mexico, threatened ICE raids. Every action he takes exacerbates and entrenches the humanitarian crisis at our nation's feet." / Twitter
Rep. Joe Kennedy III on Twitter: "@CBP Our oversight is not deterred. Congress won't let up." / Twitter
Congresswoman Madeleine Dean on Twitter: "Just left the first CBP facility. The conditions are far worse than we ever could have imagined. 15 women in their 50s- 60s sleeping in a small concrete cell, no running water. Weeks without showers. All of them separated from their families. This is a human rights crisis." / Twitter

 

[Derec]

Rashida Tlaib on Twitter: "We can't just focus on the children anymore. I met grandmothers, mothers and fathers who are suffering. This is devastating. The look in one father's eyes broke me. I can't look away. #CloseTheCamps" / Twitter

I have some empathy with the children, but the adults CHOSE to come here and show up at the border uninvited.
And what is her solution? Just open the borders and let anybody in who wants to come in? Ridiculous! She (and AOC) wants us to fuck up US like Merkel did with Germany!

 

[lpetrich]

Concentration camps they are.

No they are not.

Derec, what is a real concentration camp? Do the British concentration camps of the Boer War qualify? The US ones in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War? The US ones for Japanese-Americans in WWII?

And besides, it is difficult to organize care for 100,000s of mass migrants who just show up on your border. Especially when politicians like AOC do not want to fund it.

AOC wanted purely humanitarian aid, not the bullshit that Mitch McConnell and his friends added on.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "This just broke: a secret Facebook group of 9,500 CBP officers discussed making a GoFundMe for officers to harm myself & Rep. Escobar during our visit to CBP facilities & mocked migrant deaths.

For AOC to harm herself? How would they convince her to harm herself?

For them to harm her.

This isn’t about “a few bad eggs.” This is a violent culture. https://t.co/SkFwThHElx" / Twitter[/url] noting Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes — ProPublica

Oh please! It's just jokes.

Derec, if someone talked about how great it would be to neuter you in the literal anatomical sense, would you dismiss it as a joke?

 

[bilby]

Just because the POTUS's daughter converted to Judaism and just because they don't wear armbands or swastikas (yet) doesn't mean they aren't Nazis. If it walks like a duck and all of that. Except for the name and a few other changes, the story's the same one as Neil Diamond would say.

As I keep trying to say, they don't need to be Nazis to be bad people.

As I keep trying to say, they don't need to be bad people to be Nazis.

Most Nazis were not bad people. They were ordinary, decent, law-abiding people, who believed in the maintaining of law and order, and in the importance of respecting and obeying the lawful orders of the police. While they were aware that sometimes the police and other authorities might go a bit too far in restraining criminals, and they understood that the conditions in prisons and detainment centres were often quite unpleasant, they considered this to be quite okay - after all, if someone breaks the law, they should expect bad things to happen to them.

That's Nazism in a nutshell. It mostly doesn't entail killing people, or even mistreating them - it's sufficient that you turn a blind eye to any mistreatment, and consider it an acceptable price to pay for an orderly and lawful society.

Hollywood has done an excellent job of persuading people that Nazis are bad people; Villainous, twisted, and evil. But that's wrong. The truly terrifying fact about Nazis is that they are ordinary. Very, very, ordinary. Ordinary to the point of despising anyone or any activity that's out of the ordinary. Nazis are boring, conventional, decent, and upright members of society, who simply don't care very much what happens to people who make the foolish choice to be different. If people won't respect our laws, our police, and our way of life, then what happens to them is their own fault.

That's Nazism. And it's very subtle, and terrifyingly familiar.

All you need to do is to stop caring about people who are not like you; And start caring more about order, discipline, and law.

 

[lpetrich]

Jonathan M. Katz on Twitter: "@Anna_Giaritelli I’ve been outside all the facilities she’s touring today around El Paso, and according to everything I’ve seen the part about her leaving the tour is a lie. @AOC was inside each one for the maximum amount of time—first one in, last one out. https://t.co/HeH53W2nTx" / Twitter noting Anna Giaritelli on Twitter: "SCOOP: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., screamed at federal law enforcement agents “in a threatening manner” during a visit to a U.S. Border Patrol facility in El Paso, Texas, Monday afternoon and refused to tour the facility, according to two people who witnessed it." / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "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. https://t.co/rcu9Rt6B2x" / Twitter noting David Martosko on Twitter: "I haven't seen photo of the Clint, TX facilities that @AOC described today, but it would be interesting if "drinking from the toilet" meant drinking from an attached sink marked "potable water" -- like this image from a CBP holding facility in Tuscon (filed in federal court). https://t.co/uDbhy1GPOa" / Twitter
Someone claimed that these sink-toilets are pushbutton ones.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "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" / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "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. https://t.co/4ZhOMlEBVA" / Twitter noting Joaquin Castro on Twitter: "All Americans must help to change this system. Thank you to the members who attended today: @RepEscobar, @RepJudyChu, @RepPeteAguilar, @NormaJTorres, @RepSylviaGarcia, @AOC, @RepLoriTrahan, @RepJoeKennedy, @RepVeasey, @RepPressley, @RepDean, @RepRashida, @gregstantonaz. https://t.co/CZX0wBwWZZ" / Twitter
A rather sizable delegation. When these people return to DC, I hope that at least some of them raise a big stink about that cellphone deprivation.

 

[lpetrich]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "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). https://t.co/gozTUeaWa5" / Twitter noting Jonathan M. Katz on Twitter: "Hey @CBP, I’m a reporter following around the congressional delegation of @JoaquinCastrotx, @AOC, @RashidaTlaib, etc. I would be happy to go into your facility and independently verify the report of detainees drinking out of toilets. I’m available now." / Twitter
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "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. https://t.co/wtkIy8EQWO" / Twitter noting Saikat Chakrabarti on Twitter: "Imagine all your hateful trolls online, but with guns. Imagine walking into a fenced area full of them. No exit. You don't get to take any cameras or phones with you. And those trolls with guns? They're the ones in charge of protecting you. That's what @AOC faced today. https://t.co/50xO7hALbk" / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "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" / Twitter
AOC was wearing a red dress and no glasses.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "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. https://t.co/R5exxjRhKy" / Twitter noting Jonathan M. Katz on Twitter: ".@AyannaPressley meanwhile wasn’t having any of it. https://t.co/kY8PMm2fjz" / Twitter
Jonathan M. Katz on Twitter: "The Trumpist protesters were trying their best to pretend they were pro-immigrant and diversity, but their mask disintegrated when @RashidaTlaib spoke. They yelled about how much they loved pork. When she said she loved her country, they called her a foreigner. https://t.co/4gdljhS8Ty" / Twitter
Jonathan M. Katz on Twitter: "Rep. @AyannaPressley backed up @AOC here, saying she’d also learned that detainees were forced to drink from toilets. She also described the “iceboxes” in which detainees are kept to ensure they’re uncomfortable. “It’s cruelty and racism,” she said. https://t.co/iqf5cNZbib" / Twitter

Jonathan M. Katz on Twitter: ".@AOC came out and told us that there are kids inside who’ve been stuck here for months, and others who can’t communicate because they don’t speak English or Spanish https://t.co/sNMOmc9Fzz" / Twitter
She was speaking Spanish there and I don't have access to a spoken-language autotranslator.
Jonathan M. Katz on Twitter: "Here’s @AOC outside the CBP station in Hondo Pass. She says the women detained inside are being forced to drink out of toilets. https://t.co/0XerZe2AmB" / Twitter
Jonathan M. Katz on Twitter: "Here’s as close as I could get to the concentration camp. https://t.co/psg0ch9OIA" / Twitter
Jonathan M. Katz on Twitter: "Here’s the entrance to the camp at Clint. I spoke with @RashidaTlaib on the way in. You can hear her over the Trumpist counterprotestors. https://t.co/6ddYbzOcm0" / Twitter
Jonathan M. Katz on Twitter: "Ah sorry somehow I shared this from the middle. My interview with @RashidaTlaib is closer to the beginning. @AOC arriving as well. https://t.co/EKggLAstVl" / Twitter
Jonathan M. Katz on Twitter: "Here’s @AOC speaking at Clint. The pro-camp counterprotesters were doing their best to drown out all the legislators, but especially her. https://t.co/QAdKJ2i1A6" / Twitter
Talk about having a big day.

As to the Trumpies, they need a shirt color.  Blackshirts has some hints: white, gray, black, red, brown, yellow, green, blue. If they find it hard to decide, then I recommend brown.