We told you earlier today about AOC’s ridiculous comments about migrants being forced by border agents to drink out of the toilets:
Here’s @AOC outside the CBP station in Hondo Pass. She says the women detained inside are being forced to drink out of toilets. pic.twitter.com/0XerZe2AmB
— Jonathan M. Katz (@KatzOnEarth) July 1, 2019
We knew it was garbage as soon as we heard her say it and predicted that the CBP would probably refute her later today.
Sure enough, they have, thanks to the Daily Mail:
But a CBP official said Monday in the early evening that plumbing fixtures at the locations Ocasio-Cortez visited are standard-issue jail appliances with sinks that dispense safe drinking water attached to toilets in a single unit.
‘Of course that’s what we have,’ the official said. ‘No one is drinking toilet water. They’re drinking potable water from the sink attached to the toilet. It’s what you would find in every municipal jail in the United States.’
A photo filed in a federal court case in 2016 illustrates the setup in a Tucson, Arizona CBP holding facility. The official confirmed that it’s identical to what detainees at Texas border stations have access to.
Here’s the photo in question:
Clearly AOC is such an easy mark for these migrants who apparently saw her coming a mile away. Hope she has fun washing the egg off her face. Or maybe she’ll double down as she has on multiple occasions and then blame Republicans, like she did with her 12-year doomsday prediction and her concentration camps claim.
UPDATE: Now AOC tweets this…
This was in fact the type of toilet we saw in the cell.
Except there was just one, and the sink portion was not functioning – @AyannaPressley smartly tried to open the faucet, and nothing came out.
So the women were told they could drink out of the bowl. https://t.co/rcu9Rt6B2x
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2019
So she couldn’t mention this before, that it was simply broken? Good grief. What a child she is…