AOC Refused To Go On Staged Border Patrol Tour Because She Wanted To Talk To Detained Women

The right is smearing rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) because she refused to go on the Border Patrol’s propaganda tour of a detention facility, and instead stayed to speak with women who are being detained.

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AOC refused to be bullied by the Border Patrol

Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA) killed the right wing attack on AOC:

Members of Congress on the tour said that conditions were even worse than they imagined:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted a pic of what the women are given to clean their whole bodies with:

Trump Is Trying To Hide His Immigrant Concentration Camps From The World

The detention facilities would not give the House members information:

The Humanitarian Crisis That Trump Caused

Trump caused the humanitarian crisis by closing the ports of entry and intentionally inflicting cruel and torturous treatment on migrants. AOC and the other members of the House refused to be lied to. There are good people in this country who are fighting back against what the Trump administration is doing. What Rep. Kennedy described is not American. It is not who we are as a nation, and this stain must be removed from our country at the ballot box in 2020.

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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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