WASHINGTON – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., praised workers from Wayfair, an online home goods website, for planning a walkout after the company sold furniture to an organization that is managing migrant camps along the U.S-Mexico border.

"Wayfair workers couldn’t stomach they were making beds to cage children," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "They asked the company to stop. CEO said no."

"Tomorrow, they‘re walking out," she continued. "This is what solidarity looks like - a reminder that everyday people have real power, as long as we’re brave enough to use it."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who is a top-tier candidate in the 2020 Democratic field, also tweeted that she supports the walkout.

"I stand with the hundreds of @Wayfair employees who are planning to stage a walkout at their Boston headquarters tomorrow," she wrote. "The safety and well-being of immigrant children is always worth fighting for. "

Wayfair employees are staging a walkout in Boston, Mass., on Wednesday after the company said it would not end its business relationship with BCFS, a government contractor that has been managing migrant camps at the border, according to several reports.

Employees for the company learned last week that a $200,000 order of bedroom furniture was placed by BCFS for a facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, the Boston Globe first reported. Friday, nearly 550 employees on Friday signed a letter to Wayfair executives asking that the company cease all business with contractors that operate detention camps for immigrants.

"We believe that the current actions of the United States and their contractors at the Southern border do not represent an ethical business partnership Wayfair should choose to be a part of,” the letter stated, according to the Globe, which obtained a copy of the letter. “At Wayfair, we believe that ‘everyone should live in a home that they love.’ Let’s stay true to that message by taking a stand against the reprehensible practice of separating families, which denies them any home at all."

The walkout is set for Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. local time in Boston, the Washington Post reported. In addition, employees are calling on Wayfair to donate all profits made from the sale to BCFS to Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, a Texas-based non-profit that provides legal services to immigrants.

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This is not the first time Wayfair has sold furniture to a migrant center. According to the Post, the company sold to a facility in Tornillo, Texas, last September. That center has since been shut down.

A Twitter account about the walkout was created, as well as a Facebook page.

Wayfair and the organizers of the walkout have not responded to requests for comment.

Another Democratic lawmaker has also responded to the media reports about the planned walkout.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., whose district includes Wayfair's headquarters, said she stands in solidarity of those walking out on Wednesday.

"We must actively #resist any & all efforts by this cruel, incompetent administration to cage children and separate families," she tweeted. "I proudly stand in solidarity w/ the hardworking individuals at #Wayfair who are walking out in the name of #justice & humanity."

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