'This is America': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shares horror at photo of hundreds of migrant families trapped at border
Sharing a photo of hundreds of women, men and small children packed into a parking lot at a Border Patrol station in El Paso, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called on Americans to reflect"on the course of action" the country has chosen to respond to the influx of migrant families arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border in search of asylum.
"This is America. This is Texas. This is our...course of action, the one we chose. I cannot and will not accept it," she said, before adding a string of hashtags, calling for an end to family separation, for the reunification of separated families and for the abolishment of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, a demand that was a central component of her grassroots campaign.When you’re looking at this photo, you’re looking at a mirror. This is America. This is Texas.
"Two weeks ago, I briefed the media and testified in Congress that our immigration system was at the breaking point. That breaking point has arrived this week at our border," McAleenan said."CBP is facing an unprecedented humanitarian border security crisis all along our southwest border and nowhere has that crisis manifested more acutely than here in El Paso."
— CBP March 27, 2019In line with McAleenan's speech, CBP said its Office of Field Operations would be temporarily re-assigning up to 750 CBP officers to Border Patrol Sectors"that are confronting the unprecedented humanitarian and border security crisis on the Southwest border. The Post reporter said the children were being held in"overcrowded, unhealthy stations, with no parents," adding that the Health and Human Services department, which oversees the care of migrant children held in federal custody,"can't pick them up and place them fast enough and CBP can't release them."
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