AOC slams Brian Kilmeade for comparing migrant detention facilities to house party

Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was not impressed with Brian Kilmeade’s analogy comparing conditions inside detention centers for migrants to an out-of-control house party.

Kilmeade argued on Tuesday that the facilities themselves were not to blame for the poor living conditions inside, but rather the sheer number of people illegally crossing the border into the US.

‘Here’s the thing, picture yourself. You have a house – family of five – you have party. You have 30 people over, maybe you have a big party, you have 100 people over, and you have two and a half baths,’ the presenter said during the live broadcast.

Kilmeade compared the situation to an overcrowded party inside a house meant for a family of five and defended the US Custom and Border Patrol’s handling of the crisis 

Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who toured migrant centers in Texas Monday, clapped back at Kilmeade on Twitter

‘In the beginning it would be okay with 30, then after 100 people it would be a little bit taxed, maybe you have to get an outdoor facility. Can you picture 5,000?’

Kilmeade went on to point a finger of blame at ‘bad asylum rules’ that created ‘a wide-open border’ for undocumented immigrants, whom he dubbed ‘illegals,’ to pour into the US.

‘You can have the best facilities in the world but they are so over stocked,’ he said, before defending Border Patrol agents for their handling of the crisis.

Ocasio-Cortez, who on Monday visited US Customs and Border Patrol migrant detention facilities in Texas along with other members of the US Congress, clapped back at Kilmeade.

‘Hey, @kilmeade: What was the last “party” you went to where you: – Were locked in a cage under armed guard – Drank out of a toilet – & given food of such poor nutritional value, for so long, that it gave you mouth sores?,’ the congresswoman tweeted.

Ocasio-Cortez has spent the last 24 hours tweeting furiously about the scenes she had witnessed inside the detention center, where she described the conditions as ‘horrifying.’  

The tour, which also included a visit to the main border patrol facility in El Paso and another center in Clint, Texas, followed reports from a government watchdog that immigrants were being housed in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions.

‘After I forced myself into a cell with women and began speaking to them, one of them described their treatment at the hands of officers as “psychological warfare,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.

The Border Patrol also came under fire on Monday following a report by the non-profit news site ProPublica that offensive content had been posted on a private Facebook group for current and former CBP officers boasting 9,500 members.

Posts included jokes about the deaths of migrants and sexually explicit comments referencing Ocasio-Cortez.

Some of the posts were graphic, doctored images of Ocasio-Cortez, including one that shows a smiling President Donald Trump forcing her head toward his crotch. 

Other posts refer to Ocasio-Cortez and Veronica Escobar, of Texas, as ‘h**s,’ and one member encouraged agents to throw a ‘burrito at these b****es.’ 

‘This isn´t about “a few bad eggs,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response to the ProPublica report. ‘This is a violent culture.’

CBP condemned the Facebook group and acknowledged that it may include a number of the agency’s employees.

Matthew Klein, Assistant Commissioner of CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility, called the social media activity “disturbing” and said it violated the agency’s code of conduct.