Reporter who saw Ocasio-Cortez in Texas says Border Patrol is lying about what happened

[turbinetree]

Published 1 min ago
on July 1, 2019
By Sarah K. Burris

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a series of tweets Monday that she was harassed and intimidated by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents while touring a facility in Texas. After her claims, CBP went on the attack against Ocasio-Cortez, but third parties are calling the attacks a lie.

Ocasio-Cortez described what she saw at the facility, and how the CPB treated an elected leader while she was there. Like something out of a teen drama, the CPB followed her accusations with their own accusations and attacks.

“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,” tweeted Anna Giaritelli for the conservative paper The Washington Examiner.

New America reporter Jonathan Katz said that he was on the scene and observed the interactions. They’re noting what CPB alleged.

“I’ve been outside all the facilities she’s touring today around El Paso, and according to everything I’ve seen the part about her leaving the tour is a lie. @AOC was inside each one for the maximum amount of time—first one in, last one out,” he tweeted.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/reporter-who-saw-ocasio-cortez-in-texas-says-border-patrol-is-lying-about-what-happened/

Oh boy, Anna had a scoop......................propagandist..................

[UpInArms]

1. The Washington Examiner

The publication now known as The Washington Examiner began its life as a handful of suburban news outlets known as the Journal Newspapers, distributed only in the suburbs of Washington, under the titles of Montgomery Journal, Prince George's Journal, and Northern Virginia Journal.[6] Philip Anschutz purchased the parent company, Journal Newspapers Inc., in October 2004.[3][7][8] On February 1 of the following year, the paper's name changed to The Washington Examiner, and it adopted a logo and format similar to that of another newspaper then owned by Anschutz, The San Francisco Examiner.[6]

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The magazine's publisher said in 2013 that it would now seek to distribute the magazine to at least "45,000 government, public affairs, advocacy, academia and political professionals." [10] The publisher also claimed The Examiner's readership is more likely to sign a petition, contact a politician, attend a political rally, or participate in a government advocacy group than those of Roll Call, Politico, or The Hill.[14] According to its publisher The Examiner has a high-earning and highly educated audience, with 26 percent holding a master's or postgraduate degree and a large percentage earning over $500,000 annually, likely to be working in executive or senior management positions.[14]

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Anti Immigration Stories

In January 2019, the Washington Examiner published a story with the headline, "Border rancher: 'We've found prayer rugs out here. It's unreal'." Shortly thereafter, President Donald Trump cited the story as another justification for a border wall amid the 2018-2019 federal government shutdown. The story in question cited one anonymous rancher who offered no evidence of these Muslim prayer rugs, such as photos. The story provided no elaboration on how the rancher knew the rugs in question were Muslim prayer rugs. The author of the story formerly worked as press secretary for the anti-immigration group Federation for American Immigration Reform. Stories of Muslim prayer rugs at the border are urban myths that have frequently popped up since at least 2005, but with no evidence to substantiate the claims.[18][19][20][21][22][23] The Examiner never issued a clarification or retracted the story.

In April 2019, Quartz reported that White House advisor Stephen Miller had been purposely leaking information on border apprehensions and asylum seekers to the Washington Examiner so that the paper would publish stories with alarming statistics that sometimes criticized DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, which he could then show to Trump and undermine her position. Nielsen was fired in April 2019 for reportedly not being sufficiently hawkish on immigration.[24][25]

[BigmanPigman]

7. Propaganda rag...worse than yellow jpurnalism!

[uponit7771]

2. Sounds like the CBP is infested with the "just following orders" types. Screw that it didn't work

... then and it's now going to work going forward.

This is no doubt coming from the top, the fact there's not been 10 people already who've blown the whistle lets us know how bad things are

[backtoblue]

3. What.the.fuck.is.happening.

[uponit7771]

4. +1, We already know what's happening something like it is happened already in the past ...

... and whatever we see it's 4 times worse inside.

Trump's child concentration camps or follow them

[Haggis for Breakfast]

5. The Washington Examiner is a rag

unfit to line bird cages, wrap coffee grounds in or paper train your dog.

[ashredux]

6. They are "just following orders"......this is how it starts.

[Gothmog]

8. I believe AOC on this

[Hekate]

10. So do I

[pangaia]

9. The STASI in all its glory.

Fucking assholes...


Somewhere here on DU I think,a while back,, a cop was being interviewd and along the way he said somehting like, "15% og cops are great people whom you can always trust. 15% are assholes whome you can never trust. Thge other 70%... you just never know."

[gldstwmn]

11. I wouldn't mind if she screamed at them.