Women Held At Border Control Facility Say They Were Told To Drink From Toilets

As Buzzfeed News reported, they met with various immigrant women, some of whom had been separated from their children and some who had been detained for 50 days.

As Ocasio Cortez tweeted, one woman gave her this package of shampoo, which contained all that the women were given to wash their entire bodies with.

She said some had gone 15 days without taking a shower and others were noticing their hair fall out.

In that cell was a toilet, but no running water and one of the women told Castro than an agent had told her to drink out of the toilet.

They asked if this meant the sink attachment on a unit like this, but she replied that although this unit was used, both she and Pressley confirmed that the sink did not work. So the agent would've meant the toilet bowl.

As they told it, border authorities would frequently wake them up in the middle of the night to call them whores.

Namely, that while she had been staying at the Border Control facility, she wasn't able to obtain any medication for her epilepsy.

Most horrifyingly, she feared that the disgusting behavior she witnessed by CBP officers was them 'on their best behavior' for members of congress, and that what they were doing without supervision was likely far worse.

This was in part referencing the vulgar post made to a secret Facebook Group for border patrol officers in which Ocasio-Cortez was depicted performing sexual acts with migrants.

As Buzzfeed News reported, such allegations go all the way back to a 1985 lawsuit that resulted in the 1997 Flores agreement, but a 17-year-old girl said in 2014 that the only drinking water she could access came from the toilet tank in her holding cell.

He said that the issue was with the Trump Administration's standards of care for detained children and adults, which he suggested would persist regardless of how much funding the U.S. Customs and Border Protection received.

h/t: Buzzfeed News