‘This Is About the Preservation of Our Humanity’: Vile Conditions, Racist Rhetoric at Border Facilities

By Anne Branigin, The Root

Democrats visiting three detention facilities in Texas on Monday had to raise their voices—despite having microphones—to be heard over the shouts and heckling of pro-Donald Trump, anti-immigrant groups.

“Keep yelling. This is very appropriate. Vile rhetoric for vile actions. Hateful rhetoric for hateful behavior. Racist words and venom for racist policies,” Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) shouted back at the crowd.

Tensions have been building over the past month over conditions at border facilities. On Monday, those tensions escalated as Democrats spread word of the conditions they witnessed, and as new reports circulated of disturbingly violent, racist, xenophobic and sexist comments from current and former Border Patrol agents….

…Lawmakers pointed to the conditions at the country’s detention centers—which have been compared to Nazi concentration camps—as evidence of a xenophobic and violently negligent environment.

[Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], citing conversations with women being held at Border Patrol facilities, said migrants were being told to drink out of toilets because faucets were not functioning.

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