Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexis

[blondebanshee]

Memes

The three-year-old group, which has roughly 9,500 members, shared derogatory comments about Latina lawmakers who plan to visit a controversial Texas detention facility on Monday, calling them “scum buckets” and “hoes.”

Members of a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility in South Texas on Monday and posted a vulgar illustration depicting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant, according to screenshots of their postings.

In one exchange, group members responded with indifference and wisecracks to the post of a news story about a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant who died in May while in custody at a Border Patrol station in Weslaco, Texas. One member posted a GIF of Elmo with the quote, “Oh well.” Another responded with an image and the words “If he dies, he dies.”



[link:https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes|

[Leghorn21]

1. HERE IT IS - proof that this well-organized, well-funded arm of the US government is seething with

violence and cruelty

This is front-page news

THIS IS FRONT-PAGE NEWS

9,500 members - there are plenty more, no doubt, MANY MORE

FUCK

[Leghorn21]

2. "this is just what we know about"

”Border patrol sound like a bunch of psychopaths.
Not surprising, lowest percentage of female officers
of any federal agency. Think, this is just what we
know about. Imagine what they do to the immigrants
when nobody is watching.”

Link to tweet

[tblue37]

3. Remember the reports of white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement?

https://thegrio.com/2017/01/31/fbi-investigates-white-supremacist-law-enforcement/

[Leghorn21]

4. I do, blue - I also remember reading an article right after Jan. 20 2017 about hiring practices for

BP or ICE - someone who had knowledge of the situation was concerned that the bar for hiring in this/these outfits was dropping considerably -

My question since that fateful day has been, “Who will tell ICE to stand down?”

Have mercy, we knew this was happening, and here it is

[gopiscrap]

5. what is the name of this group...we need to weigh in and

let them know what we think!!!

[Gothmog]

6. Secret border patrol Facebook group in which 9,500 current & former agents joke about migrant deaths

Link to tweet

[Recursion]

7. I dropped my phone 3 times reading this

Not because I'm clumsy but because it was literally that shocking. This is absolutely appalling.

If the blowback from the truth being told about this destroys the Republic, the Republic deserves to be destroyed.

[womanofthehills]

8. This is so sick. Sounds like Border Patrol are a bunch of racist psychopathic white nationalists.

AOC posted a video saying she did not feel safe in there.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. People after Drumpf's own heart.