Rep. Steve King says that he drank from the toilet-fountain hybrid at migrant detention facility, and the water was 'actually pretty good.'
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said Wednesday that during a recent visit to a migrant detention facility he drank from a toilet that also served as a water fountain and that the water was"actually pretty good."
"I actually went into that cell where it was reported that they were advised they had to drink out of the toilet,” King told a crowd of about 80 people at a town hall in Eagle Grove, Iowa."I took a drink out of there. And actually pretty good." King’s story was in reference to conditions inside immigration detention facilities in Texas that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and others have described as abysmal.
In July, following a visit to two facilities, Ocasio-Cortez said she'd learned that Customs and Border Patrol officersToilets that also serve as a water fountain have been used in Border Patrol facilities for years, as well as in jails around the U.S. But where they were once used by the mostly single men crossing the border,
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