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A Democratic candidate who said she wants to turn an ICE facility into a "prison for American Zionists" was prompting outrage among Democrats who are scrambling to figure out how to isolate her amid allegations that a Republican-linked group could be funding her campaign, according to an Axios report on Wednesday.

Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist running for Texas' newly-redrawn 35th Congressional District consisting of eastern San Antonio, wrote in a long campaign Instagram post last weekend that she would make Karnes County Immigration Processing Center "a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers."

Democrats have voiced their concerns about Galindo's candidacy as questions have surfaced about who has funded her campaign. Some lawmakers have urged the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to block her nomination and Axios reported there is "private pressure" to spend money to push back on her run for office....

A controversial Democratic candidate in Texas has proclaimed she would use Immigration and Customs Enforcement centers for a new purpose — to round up "American Zionists."

According to the San Antonio Current, Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist running for Texas' newly-redrawn 35th Congressional District consisting of eastern San Antonio and the exurbs around it, posted to Instagram that she will "turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking." She added that "it will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists.”

In her Instagram post, which spanned several pages and ranted against "billionaire Zionists that control San Antonio," she also accused her Democratic primary opponent, Bexar County Sheriff's Deputy Johnny Garcia, of "want[ing] Mexicans and Jews in warehouses." She has previously claimed, with no evidence, that Garcia is part of a human trafficking operation on behalf of Zionists....