The tours, organized by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, came just days after the Democratic leadership caved to Republicans and so-called “moderate” Democrats by passing a $4.6 billion Senate border funding bill that contained virtually no safeguards for immigrant children detained by the Trump administration.
Ocasio-Cortez, who slammed her party’s leadership for capitulating to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), wrote Monday that, “After I forced myself into a cell with women and 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.”
“Tell me,” said Ocasio-Cortez, “what about that is due to a ‘lack of funding’?”
