Members of congress who toured migrant detention centers in Texas on Monday recounted the squalid conditions that undocumented migrants in the overcrowded facilities are living in. Multiple representatives said that migrants were told to drink from the toilet, were going days without showers, and living with 15 people in one cell.
Yet Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade likened the situation simply to an overcrowded house party.
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Kilmeade said:
"Here's the thing. Picture yourself, you have a house, family of five. You have a party, you have 30 people over. Maybe you have a big party and you have 100 people over and you have two and a half baths. In the beginning, it would be OK with 30. Then after 100 people, it would be a little bit taxed, maybe you got to get an outdoor facility. Can you picture 5,000?
He went on to compare the facilities to an overcrowded hotel, asserting that conditions would be unsatisfactory in any facility so overcrowded.
People quickly pointed out why these analogies don't hold up—including Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who recently toured one of the facilities.
Members of Congress who actually toured the concentration camps, made it clear they were anything but a party.
Awareness of the facilities' conditions is steadily growing, as is the outrage.
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