President Trump lashed out at Democrats via social media following calls from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for the head of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to be fired and plans by two House committees to hold hearings on the treatment of migrants held after crossing the southern border.
Congressional Democrats are speaking out about the conditions at detention centers at the southern border. New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the members of the Hispanic Caucus who toured the center near El Paso, Texas, following reports that migrants at the facility are being kept in deplorable conditions.Among them? Detainees reportedly drinking out of toilets, and being denied medicine and even showers.
But AOC also spoke of not feeling safe in the facilities she toured – perhaps with very good reason. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is now investigating a Facebook group of more than nine-thousand current and former CBP officerswho have been posting jokes about migrant deaths as well as sexist comments and sexually demeaning imagery about Ocasio-Cortez. Existence of the Facebook group was first reported by ProPublica.