There May Be More Racist Border Patrol Facebook Groups
John Moore/Getty Images On Saturday, CNN reported that it had found another Facebook group in which Border Patrol frequently posted racist and generally bigoted memes, called “The Real CBP Nation.” Thousands of members had left the group in the wake of ProPublica’s report on “I’m 10-15” according to one of the posts on CNN. The…
“The Whole Facility’s Culture Is Rotted From the Core”: What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Saw Inside the El Paso Camps
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is swarmed by media on Monday after touring a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas. Christ Chavez/Getty What stands out most about the budding concentration camps in El Paso, Texas, is that they don’t stand out at all. An unmarked beige-brick office building holds dozens of children, blinds shut to prying eyes…
Federal Inspectors Just Released These Harrowing Photos From Inside Border Holding Facilities
DHS Office of Inspector General As part of a critical report released Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General made public harrowing photographs from inside US Customs and Border Protection holding facilities in Texas. The photos, taken by OIG investigators at Border Patrol facilities in the Rio Grande Valley during the week…
Border Patrol Agents Have a Secret Facebook Group, Where Racism and Sexism Prevail
Shealah Craighead/Zuma Current and former Border Patrol agents, who are responsible in part for detaining people who enter the US illegally, have displayed shocking callousness toward immigrants and women in a secret Facebook page with roughly 9,500 members. On Monday, ProPublica revealed the page, highlighting Facebook posts that included slurs toward immigrant groups and sexist comments…
“Document, Reassure, Keep Calm”: A Behind the Scenes Look at Training Citizens to Respond to ICE
Courtesy Sacred Heart Community Service Standing in front of a group in a small conference room at a community center in Cupertino, California, Megan Swift told the story of when she was too late. “I went in and they’d been grabbed,” she tells the crowd of 25 or so earlier this week. About four months ago,…
The Mass Exodus of Top Trump Immigration Officials Continues
Customs and Border Protection acting Commissioner John Sanders speaks at a news conference proposing legislation to address the crisis at the southern border at the Capitol on May 15.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Update: President Donald Trump is expected to name Mark Morgan the next head of Customs and Border Protection. Morgan is the acting director of…