Article snippet: The freshman lawmaker – along with fellow Democrat lawmakers – toured migrant shelters in the El Paso area Monday. She has been providing updates to her 4.59 million Twitter followers, detailing what she claims are ratty facilities with abysmal care and rampant mistreatment by law enforcement. However, she made one small concession Monday afternoon, tweeting a picture of a shampoo packet supposedly handed to her by a woman in the facility. “CBP made us check our phones. But one woman slipped me this packet to take with me. It says ‘shampoo,’ but she told me that this is all they give women to wash their entire body,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Nothing else. Some women’s hair was falling out,” she claimed. “Others had gone 15 days without taking a shower.” Ocasio-Cortez listed a range of other potential abuses in a series of tweets Monday afternoon, even accusing U.S.Customs and Border Protection agents of threatening her physically and sexually. She also claimed a migrant woman told her she fears “retribution” for speaking out on the conditions. Still, Ocasio-Cortez dismissed calls for additional funding. There were reports earlier that Ocasio-Cortez screamed at law enforcement during the tour, according to two people who witnessed the incident. “She comes out screaming at our agents, right at the beginning [of the tour] … Crying and screaming and yelling,” one witness said, according to the Examiner. “The agents, they wanted to respond, but they held back because s... Link to the full article to read more
Ocasio-Cortez Admits Migrants Are Given Shampoo in Shelters
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