{"id":99900,"date":"2019-07-02T02:57:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T00:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/02\/ocasio-cortez-and-other-democrats-detail-horrifying-conditions-at-border-facility\/"},"modified":"2019-07-02T02:57:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T00:57:30","slug":"ocasio-cortez-and-other-democrats-detail-horrifying-conditions-at-border-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=99900","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats detail &#039;horrifying&#039; conditions at border facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman said people were \u2018drinking out of toilets\u2019 and denounced alleged sexual threats by CBP officers towards herFollow the latest in US politics \u2013 liveFollowing a visit to a migrant detention center in Texas on Monday, the New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called conditions \u201chorrifying\u201d and denounced sexualized threats against her \u2013 allegedly made by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers \u2013 in the lead-up to the visit.Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic colleagues were en route to a facility in Clint, Texas, when ProPublica revealed the existence of a secret Facebook group, branded as a forum for CBP officers, with 9,500 members, some of whom ProPublica linked to public Facebook pages for verified officers. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/01\/aoc-border-facility-horrifying-cbp-officers-tweets\" target=\"_blank\">Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats detail &#039;horrifying&#039; conditions at border facility<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman said people were \u2018drinking out of toilets\u2019 and denounced alleged sexual threats by CBP officers towards herFollow the latest in US politics \u2013 liveFollowing a visit to a migrant detention center in Texas on Monday, the New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called conditions \u201chorrifying\u201d and denounced sexualized threats against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}