House Democrats describe harrowing conditions at Texas border facilities

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Despite a ProPublica report detailing how some members of a private Border Patrol Facebook group expressed their displeasure about a congressional visit to Texas migrant detention centers, more than a dozen House members went through with the plan on Monday.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), one of the main targets of the Facebook group, said that she saw and heard harrowing things while touring the El Paso facility.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.