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Yeah, It Looks Like Another Ocasio-Cortez Border Claim Got ‘Royally Busted’
Townhall.com ^ | July 2, 2019 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 07/02/2019 4:28:30 PM PDT by Kaslin

Well, well, well…it was all one massive lie, wasn’t it? Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reportedly threw a tantrum at Border Patrol agents while visiting a facility in El Paso. She said the agents didn’t make her safe, whatever the hell that means, and that they were telling detained illegals to drink from the toilet. Yeah, that claim was blown up in about 30 seconds. The drinking fountains are connected to the toilets. Democrats lie. AOC lied. And they will do anything to try and stoke anger among Hispanic voters toward this White House; Trump’s support among Hispanics is not too shabby, by the way.

I haven't seen photo of the Clint, TX facilities that @AOC described today, but it would be interesting if "drinking from the toilet" meant drinking from an attached sink marked "potable water" -- like this image from a CBP holding facility in Tuscon (filed in federal court). pic.twitter.com/uDbhy1GPOa— David Martosko (@dmartosko) July 1, 2019

.@aoc thinks it’s a double toilet. https://t.co/TLD1CWWqnX— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) July 2, 2019

Ocasio-Cortez claims without evidence that CBP officers told women who were locked up in an immigrant detention facility to "drink out of the toilets" while "in front" of her and other Congress members

If it was true, why didn't AOC do something to help those poor women? pic.twitter.com/8BXQusDHkc— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 1, 2019

SCOOP: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., screamed at federal law enforcement agents “in a threatening manner” during a visit to a U.S. Border Patrol facility in El Paso, Texas, Monday afternoon and refused to tour the facility, according to two people who witnessed it.— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) July 1, 2019

So AOC didn’t actually tour the facility, abused CBP workers. and made up a bunch of stuff which sympathetic reporters are parroting without checking.

Great work, folks. https://t.co/3IveUpE1af— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) July 1, 2019

Apparently @AOC saw the terrible conditions of the detention facility despite refusing to actually tour it. Interesting. pic.twitter.com/99txYQCD47— Molly Prince (@mollyfprince) July 1, 2019

But should we be shocked that this blew up, folks? First, the toilet claim is suspect since she refused to take a tour of the facility. Second, this isn’t the first time one of her border visits was busted for being total AstroTurf.  Remember the pictures of her crying while touring another detention facility in Tornillo, Texas last week? Yeah, well those photos are old…and they were mostly of a vacant lot. Oh. yes, liberal fact-checkers tried to discredit Grabien News, who noted this tidbit. They failed—and what’s more—they proved them right [emphasis mine]:

Before @AOC hit the national stage & was just a fairly unknown House candidate frm NYC,she took time awy frm her campaign & came dwn to #Tornillo to protest the #tentcity housing migrant children.I made these previously unpublished fotos a yr ago today. #elpaso #aoc #onassignment pic.twitter.com/SWyyI1XVt9— Ivan Pierre Aguirre (@i_p_a_1) June 25, 2019

I’ll never forget this, because it was the moment I saw with my own eyes that the America I love was becoming a nation that steals refugee children from their parents,& caged them.

More kids died after this. To date, no one has been held accountable.

We need to save these kids. https://t.co/HhdMqc5zML— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 25, 2019

Photographer Ivan Pierre Aguirre recently posted pictures from AOC’s trip to the border last year, which depict the congresswoman crying, presumably at the sight of nearby migrant children being inhumanely detained.

“Before @AOC hit the national stage & was just a fairly unknown House candidate frm NYC,she took time awy frm her campaign & came dwn to #Tornillo to protest the #tentcity housing migrant children.” Aguirre wrote on Twitter. “I made these previously unpublished fotos a yr ago today.”

AOC helped bring the photos international attention after writing of the images: “I’ll never forget this, because it was the moment I saw with my own eyes that the America I love was becoming a nation that steals refugee children from their parents,& caged them.”

“More kids died after this,” she added. “To date, no one has been held accountable. We need to save these kids.”

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Grabien News searched Getty Images’ archive and located alternate-angle photos from this same event.The images, seen below, indicate AOC was crying at the sight of … a mostly empty lot.

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Snopes actually claims they’ve debunked the report, but their investigation in fact does the opposite. As reported above, both the photographer who re-surfaced the photos as well as AOC suggested the images depict her crying at the sight of nearby “caged” children. Snopes spoke with the photographer, who confirms that’s not the case:

Given that the detention of immigrant children has become a major point of national controversy, and that the obsession with Ocasio-Cortez among right-leaning media outlets has been fairly constant since her surprise election to represent New York’s 14th district in 2018, it’s perhaps no surprise that dissecting the pictures for signs of alleged malfeasance became a new internet pastime.

“The pictures were ridiculed particularly as there was no sight of actual migrant children during the protest,” Fox News reported.

That’s no surprise, Aguirre told us. The roadway leading to the encampment was closed off to news media and protesters. “Obviously,” he said, “there weren’t kids two feet away.”

Further confirming Grabien News’ account, Aguirre provided another photo depicting the roadway that leads to where the housing facility is. The photo, below, makes clear there were no children within eyeshot of the protesters.

Liberal fact-checkers are trash and Snopes is trash. But even more importantly, AOC’s lies on this subject are starting to run as the southern border itself. As our friends at Twitchy put it, her lies on this matter have been "royally busted."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: aliens; aoc; borders; bp; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; newyork; ocasiocortez
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Talk about ignorance.
1 posted on 07/02/2019 4:28:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

First lie out, before the truth can get it’s pants on, is half way around the world.


2 posted on 07/02/2019 4:30:37 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Kaslin

She is royally busted. But gravity will take care of that.


3 posted on 07/02/2019 4:32:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin
The drinking fountains are connected to the toilets. Democrats lie. AOC lied.

They are serial liars and looters.

One doesn't stand up to the other because that's how unipartarians roll over all of us

Our kids

Our grandkids

Our grandkids grandkids

4 posted on 07/02/2019 4:38:23 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Kaslin

Even if it were true, who is it who’s refused to provide the money to deal with this crisis? CONGRESS.


5 posted on 07/02/2019 4:39:46 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Kaslin

This won’t hurt her with the left. To them, lying for the sake of leftism is a virtue.


6 posted on 07/02/2019 4:41:29 PM PDT by djpg
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To: Kaslin

If someone drinks out of the toilet instead of the fountain above the toilet than Mexico once again are not sending their best..we have enough dumb asses in this country(Commies of course) we dont need anymore


7 posted on 07/02/2019 4:43:33 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Kaslin

Not only is AOC stupid but she is also a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR, who is UNFIT to be in Congress.

Yours, TMN78247


8 posted on 07/02/2019 4:44:07 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: Kaslin
She broke the law...AGAIN... and I'm sure she'll get arrested pssht!

18 U.S. Code § 287. False, fictitious or fraudulent claims

Whoever makes or presents to any person or officer in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, or to any department or agency thereof, any claim upon or against the United States, or any department or agency thereof, knowing such claim to be false, fictitious, or fraudulent, shall be imprisoned not more than five years and shall be subject to a fine in the amount provided in this title.

9 posted on 07/02/2019 4:45:24 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Kaslin

Useful idiots getting elected in solid Democratic districts, color me shocked. Her handlers should be proud.


10 posted on 07/02/2019 4:48:56 PM PDT by Kudsman (Im trying to love the tolerant left. They make it very hard to do.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I’m guessing that only refers to claims for compensation.


11 posted on 07/02/2019 4:49:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

heh heh


12 posted on 07/02/2019 4:49:54 PM PDT by steveo
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To: Kaslin

Not withstanding another whacky opinion from the formerly esteemed members o the judiciary....


13 posted on 07/02/2019 4:51:15 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: Kaslin

#AOCResign trending on twitter big time...


14 posted on 07/02/2019 4:51:47 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: BenLurkin

Really? I found nothing mentioning compensation. I don’t know, maybe you’re right, I’m no lawyer, but a caller called in on Brain Kilmeades show today and claimed AOC broke the law, that you cannot make a false claim about a federal agent but I forget what law he mentioned. I though this might have been it. I would imagine there could be a law if it puts the federal agents job at risk or hinders their job.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/287


15 posted on 07/02/2019 4:53:44 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Brilliant
Even if it were true, who is it who’s refused to provide the money to deal with this crisis? CONGRESS.
Both past (Republican) and present (Democrat)
16 posted on 07/02/2019 4:55:39 PM PDT by lewislynn (McCarthy was right.)
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To: Kaslin

The usual leftist trolls are spamming the MSM lies. They will be eating crow while denying it is crow once again.


17 posted on 07/02/2019 4:59:53 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Kaslin
Talk about ignorance.

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She got a tv. On the box it read, "built in antenna".

OAC said she didn't even know where antenna was.

18 posted on 07/02/2019 5:02:23 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: Kaslin

Sedition: incitement (to riot/rebellion), agitation, rabble-rousing, fomentation (of discontent), troublemaking, provocation, inflaming;

AOC is not stupid, don’t let her off so easily. She is engaging in sedition against the United States of America. She is doing this to cause a revolution and needs to be stopped. She was intentionally placed in Congress to do exactly what she is doing. She is an attractive, young, educated woman who the millennials, and minorities will believe and follow.


19 posted on 07/02/2019 5:07:36 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Kaslin

Yo, Ilhan! That Taqiya stuff is da bomb!

Toldya...girl....friend.


20 posted on 07/02/2019 5:09:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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