Joaquin Castro sneaks camera into Border Patrol facility, shares photos of migrants who 'need help'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

When Democratic lawmakers toured Border Patrol facilities Monday, officials asked them to surrender their phones.

But one Texas congressman was able to sneak a device in, capturing the conditions and the migrants being held there.

Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, shared photos he took Monday evening after he and his colleagues completed their tour. The images showed some of the detainees and the cramped conditions at those facilities.

In one of the videos Castro shared on Twitter, he wrote "this moment captures what it's like for women in CBP Custody to share a cramped cell—some held for 50 days—for them to be denied showers for up to 15 days and life-saving medication. For some, it also means being separated from their children."

Castro said one of the women alleged that when she told authorities she was thirsty, an agent told her to drink water from the toilet.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/joaquin-castro-sneaks-camera-into-border-patrol-facility-shares-photos-of-migrants-who-need-help/ar-AADKuXx?li=BBnb7Kz

[gratuitous]

1. Prediction: More outrage will be expressed over the camera than the photos

But that's kind of a gimme.

[dawg day]

2. Good for him. Don't follow illegal rules.

I can't believe the courts have been allowing them to keep lawyer, medical staff, families, and politicians out all this time.

[UniteFightBack]

3. Excuse me but the AMERICAN PEOPLE OWN these facilities. nt

[llmart]

4. Those women's faces are haunting.

The pain is palpable. This is inhumane and unthinkable that it's being done in our names.

I weep for the death of the America I once knew.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Castro challenged the CPB agents, asked them what law prohibits a Congressperson

from bringing cameras or phones in and photographing the people and the facilities, and they couldn't cite any law at all. He kept his phone in his pocket instead of turning it over to them like they demanded, and he knew he was being observed by security cameras, so CPB knew he was taking pictures. But nobody did anything, so they know damn well they can't legally prohibit photography.

[Ilsa]

7. It's a bullying and intimidation game with

these authoritarian types.

[spanone]

6. why did a congressman have to sneak a camera in?

Speaks for itself.