Wells Fargo Bank funded #Gestapo @icegov private prisons that caged babies at the southern border of the USA 🇺🇸Reprehensible #BoycottWellsFargo @amnesty @amnestyusa #Repost @washingtonpost @get_reposter Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@ocasio2018) took aim at Wells Fargo Tuesday, accusing the bank of “financing the caging of children,” during a congressional hearing with CEO Tim Sloan. During Sloan’s appearance before the House Financial Services Committee, which is examining the company’s “pattern of consumer abuses,” Ocasio-Cortez pressed Sloan to explain why his company was financially supporting detention facilities where migrant children were held. “Why was the bank involved in the caging of children and financing the caging of children to begin with?” she asked, referring to the separation of families at the southern border under President Trump’s immigration policy. Sloan responded, “I don’t know how to answer that question, because we weren’t.” Sloan acknowledged that Wells Fargo provided financing for two firms that run detention facilities used by the government, with one of those partnerships still active. However, he added, “I’m not familiar with the specific assertion that you are making, but we weren’t involved with that.” Ocasio-Cortez responded: “These companies run private detention facilities run by ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], which is involved in caging children but I’ll move on." https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu90VM_HzfM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12hs1mfe8v4ja