'There's a lot of misinformation that we are not allowing people to brush their teeth. This is a toothbrush,' Chief Patrol Agent of the Border Patrol's Tuscon Sector, Roy Villareal, says in a bid to
"Now, come with me as we go into one of our detention cells. Here in front of me is a supply cart that is available to families and unaccompanied children," he says, stopping at a cart stocked with goods."Baby formula, crackers, raisins, tuna fish, mylar blankets..."
The comment is an apparent reference to the claims of Congress members, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who relayed the account of at least one migrant woman who said she was told by an official to drink out of a toilet bowl when she complained of thirst, again at a facility in Texas. "The sink in the cell we visited wasn't functional. Guards told these women, Cuban refugees, they could drink out of the bowl," she maintained."This account has been corroborated by other members of Congress.
"[Fifteen] women in their 50s and 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," said Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania.
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