Hispanic pastors visited U.S. migrant border facilities and
insisted that these camps aren't at all what some in the liberal media are
making them out to be.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) visited the facilities at
the U.S. southern border after branding them " concentration camps."
She received heavy criticism from both sides of the aisle, but later — after
having visited the camps — insisted that the facilities are as bad as she
initially thought.
After a visit at facilities located in El Paso and Clint, Texas,
the freshman congresswoman insisted that detainees were drinking from toilets.
She also insisted that Border Patrol agents did not make her feel safe on her
trip.
What
are the details?
Several Hispanic pastors visited the detention centers to form
their own opinions on the conditions inside. They stated that the camps are
both humane and well-run by federal officials.
According to Fox News, "Rev.
Samuel Rodriguez was 'full of indignation' when he saw the reports and heard
from politicians about the deplorable and inhumane conditions for illegal
immigrants at an El Paso County, Texas, migrant detention center."
What Rodriguez saw during a visit, according to Fox News, was
"drastically different" from what was being reported.
Rodriguez, who is president of the National Hispanic Christian
Leadership Conference, previously advised former Presidents Bush, Obama, and
Trump on matters of immigration.
On Monday, he announced that he didn't feel any need to be
concerned over the camps at the border.
"I read the reports, I saw the news clips," he said.
"I just wanted to see what was actually happening in order to better
enable our efforts to find a fair and a just solution to our broken immigration
system."
"To my surprise," he continued, "I saw something
drastically different from the stories I've been hearing in our national
discourse. Even as a veteran of immigration advocacy in the U.S., I was shocked
at the misinformation of the crisis at the border."
"We found no soiled diapers, no deplorable conditions, and
no lack of basic necessities," he insisted. "We were witnessing the
identical conditions the attorneys saw when they toured the facility days
earlier."
What
else?
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) also took aim at
Ocasio-Cortez's rhetoric on the detention facilities during a Tuesday night Fox
News interview.
Crenshaw argued that Democrats were simply lying about
conditions of the camps.
"It's sad to see, [Ocasio-Cortez is] getting bolder with
her lies on this, and this is what is actually happening, and this is what the
American people need to understand," he insisted.
"People like AOC are operating off of a false premise, and
it's deliberately designed to misinform the American people for her own
political ends, right? Remember first there was no crisis at all, OK? Then it
was a manufactured crisis, then it was a crisis completely created by Trump,
then there were concentration camps, then people are Nazis," Crenshaw
recalled.
"Now," he continued, "[Ocasio-Cortez is] saying
that border patrol harassed her and forced migrants to drink out of
toilets?"
Crenshaw added, "This is insanity. This is not true —
there's just nobody else corroborating these kinds of reports. And yet, she's
using it to try to make her case that we shouldn't have any enforcement and
that we should have open borders."
"This is really dishonest behavior from a member of
Congress, and I honestly can't believe it," he concluded.
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