Customs and Border Protection said on Monday that it had informed the DHS inspector general about the posts & had started its own investigation. The National Border Patrol union decried the posts as “inappropriate and unprofessional.” a 9,500-member Facebook group, comprising current and former Border Patrol agent s as well as others, was documented by ProPublica this week: they “joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility, and posted a vulgar illustration depicting Ocasio-Cortez engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant, according to screenshots of their postings.” A reckoning from their superiors is due for any border agents who dishonoredtheir uniform by spreading vileness on social media.
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