Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and other Democrats described the conditions in two Texas immigration facilities as “indefensible.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Monday described the abysmal conditions she and other members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus saw after visiting two immigration detention facilities in Texas, including learning that Customs and Border Patrol officers told detained women to “drink out of the toilets.”

“After I forced myself into a cell w/ women & began speaking to them, one of them described their treatment at the hands of officers as ‘psychological warfare’ — waking them at odd hours for no reason, calling them wh*res, etc.,” she wrote. “Tell me what about that is due to a “lack of funding?”

Ocasio-Cortez was part of a delegation of more than a dozen congressional members who toured two centers in El Paso and Clint, Texas.

“We came today and we saw that the system is still broken,” said Rep. Joaquín Castro, D-Texas, who chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, at a press conference after their tour. “These are the conditions that have been created by the Trump administration. These are the inhumane conditions that folks are facing,” he said, as he and the other lawmakers were trying to speak above the din of hecklers shouting, “America First!”

The congressional members’ comments to reporters and tweets on social media came hours after Pro Publica reported that 9,500 Customs and Border Patrol agents had participated in a Facebook group replete with jokes about migrant deaths and sexist comments about lawmakers, including Ocasio-Cortez. NBC News has not independently verified this Facebook group and has not seen the posts.

“I see why CBP officers were being so physically and sexually threatening towards me,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. “Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets.”

“This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress,” she added.

Castro, who told reporters that the Pro Publica report “shocks the conscience that these agents are entrusted with the lives of anybody in their custody,” corroborated Ocasio-Cortez’s tweets, stating that the group encountered a group of around 15 mothers — some of whom had been housed in the facility for more than 50 days — living in “indefensible” conditions. Read more

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