On Wednesday, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, posted a video of himself drinking from a drinking fountain attached to a toilet at an immigrant detention facility at the U.S.-Mexico border.

King posted the video after NBC reporter Maura Barrett reported that King defended his comments on the treatment of migrants at facilities on the border at a town hall Wednesday in Eagle Grove, Iowa.

"At today’s town hall in Eagle Grove, @SteveKingIA told a story about how he drank from a toilet at a migrant facility on the border when he last visited: 'actually pretty good,'" she tweeted.

King responded by thanking Barrett for her coverage and posting the video he mentioned of himself drinking water from a fountain in the facility. He sips the water from the fountain, saying "not bad" in the video.

This isn't the first time King has told the story of drinking water in a migrant detention facility. In August, he told town hall-goers in Rockwell, Iowa, about the same experience.

"I went to the cell where it was alleged that the inmates in there were told that they had to drink out of the toilet," King said. "So I went and took that drink that was the recommendation that was there and I’ve got pictures of it. You can see them. There was a stainless steel flush toilet, the back tank of the toilet and on the back tank of the toilet is a drinking fountain.

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"So, 'drink out of the toilet' means take a drink out of this drinking fountain that’s built into this so that it’s semi-indestructible. So, what we got out of there was a whole wrong story. They take good care of them.”

King said that people detained at the border were adequately cared for, despite claims and news reports that people were mistreated by ICE. One July report from Buzzfeed said there was no running water at one facility so immigrants were told to drink from a toilet.

“They have a warehouse there full of toothbrushes and shampoo … there they are well taken care of and I met with and didn’t really talk with but met with a good number of them," King said in Rockwell.

King has repeatedly faced backlash for his views on immigrants. He has been an outspoken advocate in border security, and earlier this year linked U.S. immigration laws to the death of Mollie Tibbetts and the slain Des Moines family of three, who were killed by undocumented immigrants.

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Robin Opsahl covers political trends for the Register. Reach them at ropsahl@registermedia.com.