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. “Others had gone 15 days without taking a shower.” The women Ocasio-Cortez and other members of Congress spoke with described their treatment by border patrol officers as “psychological warfare,” and said guards were “waking them at odd hours for no reason” and “calling them wh*res.” “Tell me what about that is due to a ‘lack of funding?‘” Ocasio-Cortez wrote, striking down one of the Trump administration's reasonings for the appalling conditions in the detention facilities.
“did a lot of ‘cleaning up’” before the lawmakers' arrival, including only allowing the migrants to start bathing once the lawmakers' visit was announced. The lawmaker added that the women the members of Congress spoke with “told me in no uncertain terms that they would experience retribution for telling us what they shared.
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