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A View Inside ICE Facilities: It's Like a 'Miniature Walmart,' Migrants Fed Same Items as Military

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has taken time to do a photo op at the border.

The New York Democrat has called for the abolition of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and has likened the detention facilities for migrants to Nazi concentration camps.

AOC has willingly spread the lie the migrants in custody are forced to drink water out of toilets.

But when Republican members of Congress entered into the facilities this week, their videos, photos and testimonials told a very different story.

In a video posted to Twitter, Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona told a story from just outside an ICE location.

“We visited the cafeteria, and the dietician who is on staff at the nearby military base is also the dietician on staff right here at this facility,” Biggs said. “In fact, they share the same menu. …

“Those who are disparaging ICE and ICE detention facilities, those who are disparaging [Customs and Border Protection] and their operation facilities, they’re doing it knowing they are misleading the American public.”

Biggs said he was “impressed by the efficiency and transparency by which these agents discharge their duties and uphold the rule of American law. We appreciate the efforts and sacrifices of these brave men and women.”

In another video from a Border Patrol station in El Paso, Texas, Biggs said of CPB that “these men and women have done an incredible work through this massive surge.”

He called claims from Democrats that Border Patrol agents have murdered and tortured migrants to be “an absolute fabrication said for political purposes.”

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Rep. Denver Riggleman of Virginia posted pictures from inside the facilities showing clean, spacious rooms; large amounts of food; and supplies for babies and mothers.

In a tweet where he called out the Democrats for “falsehoods,” Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia said the lies from “the other side of the aisle are just shameful.”

While touring ICE facilities, Hice took a short video where he said the abundance of materials made the building “like a miniature Walmart.”

In the video, Hice pointed behind him to diapers, toothpaste, toothbrushes, lotions, socks, clothing and soap. “We have row after row after row of food, air-conditioning, places for cots they sleep on,” he said.

“The lies never cease with what we are being told by the Democrats,” Hice concluded.

Biggs said CBP facilities have “a mini supermarket set up for the needs of the illegal aliens they process.”

AOC and other Democrats criticize ICE and CBP agents even though they are doing so much with so few resources.

“You have people for political reasons who want to continue to tell a lie and demonize these men and women of Border Patrol who are doing everything they possibly can,” Biggs said.

Those same people, he said, also “prevent us from being able to enforce our laws.”

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G.S. Hair is the former executive editor of The Western Journal.
G.S. Hair is the former executive editor of The Western Journal and vice president of digital content of Liftable Media.

After graduating law school from the Cecil C. Humphries School of Law, Mr. Hair spent a decade as an attorney practicing at the trial and appellate level in Arkansas and Tennessee. He represented clients in civil litigation, contractual disputes, criminal defense and domestic matters. He spent a significant amount of time representing indigent clients who could not afford private counsel in civil or criminal matters. A desire for justice and fairness was a driving force in Mr. Hair's philosophy of representation. Inspired by Christ’s role as an advocate on our behalf before God, he often represented clients who had no one else to fight on their behalf.

Mr. Hair has been a consultant for Republican political candidates and has crafted grassroots campaign strategies to help mobilize voters in staunchly Democrat regions of the Eastern United States.

In early 2015, he began writing for Conservative Tribune. After the site was acquired by Liftable Media, he shut down his law practice, moved to Arizona and transitioned into the position of site director. He then transitioned to vice president of content. In 2018, after Liftable Media folded all its brands into The Western Journal, he was named executive editor. His mission is to advance conservative principles and be a positive and truthful voice in the media.

He is married and has four children. He resides in Phoenix, Arizona.
Birthplace
South Carolina
Education
Homeschooled (and proud of it); B.A. Mississippi College; J.D. University Of Memphis
Location
Phoenix, Arizona
Languages Spoken
English
Topics of Expertise
Culture, Faith, Politics




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