>> Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited a border patrol facility in El Paso,
Texas, and outlined the horrific conditions in which these migrants are kept in.
At this point, it isn't surprising, considering all of the various news reports indicating
that these migrants are being mistreated and abused.
But her tweets are getting quite a bit of attention.
So let me share them with you.
In one tweet, she says, just left the 1st CBP facility.
I see why CBP officers are being so physically and sexually threatening toward me.
I'll fill you in on that in just a second.
Officers were keeping women in cells with no water and had told them to drink out of
the toilets.
This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.
>> So if you think that sounds outrageous on a couple of fronts, and when I first saw
it, I was like.
Physically, and sexually threatening towards her.
Well, you're about to see the details, and it's very true.
It's not about her visit, then and there, but it's about a story that ProPublica broke,
and then, drinking out of toilets.
Say that in front of members of Congress, it just seems unbelievable.
Now, Representative Judy Chu was also there, she backed up Ocasio-Cortez, saying, they
very clearly told women to drink out of toilets, while members of Congress were there.
>> So I actually- >> Unbelievable!
>> So I actually would like to go to those videos first, and then, I'm gonna fill you
in on how these agents were threatening to women of Congress, take a look.
>> We just left the El Paso Border Patrol station, and now, we're going to the Clint
Border Patrol Station, but what we saw was appalling and disgusting.
We talked to a group of women detainees, who said that they didn't have running water,
that one was an epileptic, and she couldn't get her medication.
They were separated from their children.
They'd been there over 50 days.
One woman said that the Border Patrol agent told her to, if she wanted water just to drink
from a toilet.
>> So there you have a woman from Congress backing AOC's account up.
And I mean, again, at this point, migrants being abused in these facilities is no surprise.
What's shocking to me, is that we have Members of Congress who just aren't doing anything
about it, right?
>> Yeah, I gotta be honest with you, maybe I'm still naive to this moment, I was kind
of shocked by the pro-Republican reporting on how poorly a huge percentage of border
patrol folks view at these immigrants that there, detaining.
I thought that, I know this sounds, I know ridiculously naive, that they would view them
as different than prisoners, and that they would treat them with a little bit more respect.
But no, of course, that was foolish.
No, they're apparently treating them in horrific ways.
And assuming that they're guilty of something, and so, the abuse is terrible, and this story
put me over the top.
We gotta do everything we can, we gotta let him go.
And that doesn't mean let him go in a lawless way, just do it the way we had it before Trump,
where they have to come back and appear in court.
But holding them in these detention centers, they prove across your Cortez right, and more
right every single day with how they treat these detainees.
>> So ProPublica uncovered a private Facebook page, titled, I'm 1015, 1015 is code for aliens
and custody.
And it has 9,500 members in it.
They are all either previous or current border patrol agents, and the posts are disgusting,
dehumanizing, shocking, and they have written some horrific things about AOC, in particular.
So let me give you an example.
According to ProPublica's reporting, perhaps the most disturbing posts target Ocasio-Cortez.
One includes a photo illustration of her engaged in oral sex at an immigrant detention center.
Text accompanying the image reads, Lucky Illegal Immigrant Glory Hole Special Starring AOC.
>> That one apparently was so bad, they didn't even include the picture.
The picture they included of AOC and Donald Trump was so horrific, that I couldn't believe
what the other picture might must be, so, and they just, I know you have a description
of it, and it's Trump pushing his head down into his lab, but that, it's worse than that.
And so, it's horrible.
I don't wanna show it.
>> We're not gonna show it.
>> Yeah.
>> But I think it's important to give you the details of what the post entailed, because
this is, these are the people who are responsible for detaining these migrants, which gives
you a sense of what type of people they are, where their head is at, and how they should
not be in any type of position of power.
So for instance, again, from ProPublica's reporting, another is a photo illustration
of a smiling President Donald Trump forcing Ocasio-Cortez's head toward his crotch.
The agent who posted the image commented, quote, that's right bitches, the masses have
spoken, and today, democracy won.
>> And again, the picture's actually worse, it implies very heavily that it's, you get
it.
So listen, one is how they're treating members of congress, AOC, there's another Latina congress
woman that they said terrible things about.
The other is how they're treating the migrants themselves.
Now, important context here, this Facebook group has 9,500 people, as Ana pointed out.
There's only 20,000 border patrol agency, the whole country.
So I don't know that the entire 9,500 is border patrol agency, maybe, it's family members,
maybe, it's friends.
But that is a huge percentage of border patrol agents, anyway, you slice it, that is in this
Facebook group.
Now, these outrageous things are being put up there, doesn't seem to be much push back,
or people going, what are you doing, don't put that picture of AOC, that's disgusting,
right, well, don't say that about migrants dying and how you don't care, that's preposterous.
Or you're gonna make us look bad, even if I agree with you.
Or could one person actually speak up, and say, I don't agree with you guys, and this
is terrible?
And then, they have this quote in there.
Remember, you're never alone in this family.
I mean, I don't know that, I mean, what a horrific quote unquote family.
But it goes to the conservative mindset, which is, if you're in our family, you're one of
us, will do whatever it takes for you.
But everyone else is the other, and is horrible, terrible, and must be crushed.
So I, again, will give you more details, how they're treating the immigrants in a second.
>> So I wanna give you a few more of the posts that ProPublica was able to uncover.
I mean, I see the image of AOC in your printouts right now, and it's difficult to even look
at it.
In one exchange, group members responded with indifference, and wisecracks to the post of
a new story about a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant who died in May, while in custody
at the border patrol station in Texas.
One member posted a GIF of Elmo with a quote, well, another responded with an image, and
the words if he dies, he dies.
>> So look, in the past, we found out in early 2018, through another report that Border Patrol
agents in Arizona, it had derogatory names for the migrants that they were detaining,
calling them curses I can't repeat, beaners, sub-human, and the list goes on and on.
So look guys, this gets to the heart of the problem here.
The Zimbardo experiment at Stanford, showed in studying almost every psychology class
there is, that if you have prisoners and detainees, I'm sorry, guards and prisoners, right?
The guards will almost always abuse the prisoners.
In that case, they were both Stanford students, both Stanford students.
And the experiment was it just told them, hey, we're doing an experiment.
Half of you are gonna be prisoners arbitrarily, and half of you're gonna be guards arbitrarily.
But immediately, the guards turned incredibly cruel, and the prisoners then took on all
the terrible things they started to feel as if it was real.
And started to have a sense of insecurity, etc., etc.
So the reason I'm telling you this, is because it is human nature, this is how we react.
Even Stanford students who were told ahead of time, did it anyway.
But yet, we never teach the Zimbardo experiment at any correctional facility.
Now, in this case, these are not prisoners.
If you're gonna teach it anywhere, you should tell the guards ahead of time.
Do not treat these people like prisoners, and understand that whenever you have a situation
with guards and detainees, it is human nature that cruelty will rise, and we are going to
work ahead of time to make sure it doesn't happen.
Does any of that look like it's happening?
No, they just let Adam have at it, right?
And then, these guards turn vicious towards the detainees who aren't prisoners, who didn't
commit any crimes.
They didn't kill anyone, they didn't steal from anyone.
So the worst you can charge them with was, they were looking for hope when they came
to America, and this is what they got instead.
>> Also Jank, I mean, that experiment is one thing, and human nature is something that
should be considered when you talk about people in positions of power.
Capturing or keeping captive other people who have no power.
But in this case, I think, it's important to point to what type of person would be attracted
to this type of job under the Trump administration, especially.
I mean, you have this administration on a regular basis dehumanizing these migrants.
Many of whom are not in any way involved in criminal behavior, or not violent, or literally
looking for asylum, because of economic reasons, or more importantly, because they're fleeing
violence in their own countries.
And who would wanna be a border patrol agent under this type of system, with a president
who uses this type of rhetoric in regard to the migrants.
I mean, it's going to attract a certain type of person.
And by the way, I mean, Scaramucci said, and I always repeat this phrase, because it's
so accurate.
The fish rots from the head down.
You have someone like Donald Trump dehumanizing people, what does that do?
What type of signalling does that do to the rest of America?
And in particular, ICE agents and people who work in Border Patrol.
>> He calls them sub human in essence, he calls them criminals and rapists, he says
they're like a virus coming into the country.
This is classic fascist talk to dehumanize people.
And lo and behold, the Border Patrol agents, according to every one of these reports, turns
out they're talking about them as if they're quote, subhuman, a lot of them were talking
about in the 2018 report burning up the migrants.
So we are doing untold cruelty to these people, and are the Border Patrol agents mainly conservative?
If you'd asked me before, again, sorry, that I'm at this late date, I'm still this naive,
I would've thought, probably, a majority are conservative or republican, but it's probably
fairly similar split to the country with a little tilted toward conservative.
No, I was totally wrong.
The post are all horrifically conservative.
Not like, hey, I believe in balance budgets.
No, Ocasio-Cortez and Congresswoman, Veronica Escobar, said that visited a facility in Texas,
and an agent brave enough to throw 1,050 burritos at one of this bitches should get paid, and
then, we should set up, basically, a go fund me page for them, again, no objections, okay?
Another one, or maybe it's the same one, I'm not sure.
No, a patrol supervisor, says after hose, referring to two congresswoman, who both just
happen to be Latina, okay?
And so, nobody objects, 9,500 people in a Facebook group, one insane, conservative outrage
after another, and again, it's not as outrageous that they're conservatives, outrageous, how
they're conservative.
So not only the wildly, horribly sexual stuff about the congresswoman, but how they talk
about the migrants, and then, the picture of the two, the dad and the two-year-old,
who are killed, who died in the water.
One of them says, it's probably a sick democratic conspiracy theory.
They probably weren't real, unchallenged.
>> 23-month-old child, dead, drowned, okay.
And this is the type of reaction you get from the right wing.
I mean, I have so much to say, the hypocrisy is just the beginning of it, right.
So on one hand, you have, the right-wing in America talking about doing away with reproductive
rights, because we need to protect the zygotes.
We need to protect the fetuses.
There are children dying right now.
Right now, at this very moment.
23-month-old dead.
Is there any sympathy?
Is there any empathy?
Is there any of that coming from the right-wing?
Or Border Patrol Agents?
Of course not.
Who cares?
I mean, how much more evidence do members of Congress need to actually act?
And I'm not talking about throwing more money at the problem, which is what Nancy Pelosi
wants.
I'm talking about going after this administration, actually, fighting and being a leader.
When are we gonna have real democratic leadership in this country?
This is so pathetic.
I mean, you have children living in feces, you have children dying, you have children
who are sick, and they're untreated.
I mean, dozens of people have died at this point in Border Patrol custody.
And at first, you hear these reports about, they arrived sick, and there's all sorts of
excuses being made for Border Patrol.
No, no more excuses.
It's abundantly clear that these people are being abused.
There are children who are being sexually assaulted and molested in these facilities.
Does anyone care about that?
>> Yeah, and to the point of all the deaths when you have Border Patrol agents, openly
saying, if he dies, he dies.
That's literally saying, I don't care that the kids are dying.
That was a kid that he was referring to in their custody.
So if you don't care that kids in your custody are dying, that's why they're dying, cuz you
never made an effort to help save them.
And this is, as a sociologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson said, seems to be quote,
a pervasive culture of cruelty, and so, that's what we're doing right now in these detention
centers.
If, look, I'm tired of saying if the democrats don't fight.
The leadership is pathetic.
>> No, they're not gonna fight.
>> They're never gonna fight, never.
>> We need to get them out.
But we need to challenge every single one of these weak Democrats.
Can you imagine, for a second, if the tables were turned, and we had a Democrat in Office,
and a Democrat did even a tiny, tiny sliver of what Trump has done.
Non stop, non stop.
We're gonna impeach, we're gonna impeach.
And I guarantee you, they would succeed, they would succeed.
But with Nancy Pelosi, her recent response to the rape allegations against Donald Trump
took me over the top, because she was asked, are you planning on doing anything about the
fact that Trump was just accused of raping a woman two decades ago?
He's like, I don't know.
I'm not following that story.
I don't even know who that is.
And let the republicans deal with it.
>> What?
>> What, the republicans deal with it?
They're gonna do absolutely nothing.
What a ridiculous thing to say.
I mean, Trump said, I can kill somebody in Fifth Avenue and get away with it.
I don't know if Bergdorf Goodman, where the alleged rape happened, is on Fifth Avenue,
but there's some chance now that Nancy Pelosi is saying he can rape someone on Fifth Avenue,
and get away with it.
She says let the republicans deal with it.
So no, no, Pelosi should step down as leader, cuz she is literally not a leader.
Unless her claim to fame is I am leading, I'm leading in defense of Donald Trump and
his actions, that's the only claim she could make to leadership.
She's not leading democrats, she's not leading progressives, so she's gotta step down.
And progressives in congress, I think, they're beginning to get the memo.
Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership, Steny Hoyer with his kerchief in his coat
pocket, are not on your side, they're not on your side.
They had been taught and funded to obey Republicans.
And that is what their job is, they bow their heads at every turn.
And their donors say, good boy, good boy, steady, good boy, go agree with Republicans,
and shut up while you're doing it.
And they've been following those commands for all these years.
They're never gonna fight for us, throw the bums out, throw all the bugs in leadership
out, when the new leadership right now, and those people know centers, we gotta return
the days of what we used to do, which is actually, America represent decency and humanity.
We're not letting them go in the country, they have to show up to court and well over
80% do without any problems, they have under Obama, they have historically, the number
is actually much higher than being conservative.
But we cannot hold them in those centers, now that we know for a fact that these border
patrol agents view them as sub human, and treat them with unspeakable cruelty, let them
go, let them go right now!
But again, Democratic leadership will do nothing.
They just enabled Trump to spend as much as he wants on his pet projects, and keep all
these detention centers humming along, including the ones that are privatized and making a
buck off of this cruelty.
That's who Donald Trump is, but that's who Nancy Pelosi is, enabling Donald Trump to
do that without any serious challenge.