This framed photo of Tomi Lahren hangs in US Border Patrol headquarters

[demmiblue]

A large, framed photo of far-right commentator Tomi Lahren posing with US Border Patrol officials hangs prominently on the wall of the agency’s headquarters in Washington, DC. A person with access to the area described the setting and shared a picture of it with Quartz.

Lahren, a vocal supporter of US president Donald Trump, has called immigrants “shifty and adaptable,” and has claimed they are bringing disease to the US. She regularly pushes alt-right conspiracy theories and believes an “invasion by foreigners” is “overwhelming” the country. She has also lashed out at Black Lives Matter, comparing the social justice movement to the Ku Klux Klan. She now hosts a talk show on the Fox Nation streaming service.

In the photo, Lahren is posing with (from left to right), Benjamine “Carry” Huffman, executive assistant commissioner for enterprise services at US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Border Patrol deputy chief Scott Luck, an unidentified man in a suit, Border Patrol chief Carla Provost, an unidentified member of the Border Patrol’s senior executive staff (in suit), and Richard Hudson, CBP’s acting chief for law enforcement.

The photo is more evidence of widespread anti-immigrant sentiment at Border Patrol, whose members are often the first US law enforcement officers to interact with migrants when they cross the border. That the photo hangs at the agency’s Washington headquarters suggests that the culture exists at the very top of the agency.

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. we need to purge Nazis from public office

[spanone]

2. trump has encouraged hatred at the border.

worse human being / 'president' ever

[Initech]

3. Gross. Seriously gross.

[Applegate]

4. The institutional culture at CBP is rotten to the core.

And ICE, too.

Shut 'em and gut 'em.

Time to start over.

[dalton99a]

5. This should be an item for a House hearing.

[Duncan Grant]

6. "...an unidentified man in a suit..." in the centermost position in the photo. Perfection!

My inner George Carlin can’t stop critiquing this. All of it.

It’s just another forgettable offense during the Trump administration. Bookmarking for future reference, though.

Speaking of forgettable offenses — and I’m going off-topic here — but whatever happened to that acting AG guy, Whitaker? Or Trump’s CFO, Weisselberg, who knows where all the bodies are buried? Wasn’t Michael Cohen’s testimony the tipping point? Stormy Daniels? Dying kids? Muslim ban? Love letters from North Korea?

Thankfully, somebody, somewhere, is playing 3-D chess. It’s a comfort.

[Scurrilous]

7. @#$% these people!

[Takket]

8. Not surprising.

Honestly if you were a racist anti-immigrant person, what is your dream job? CBP! I doubt there are many people joining CBP because they in favor of streamlining immigration and support DACA and asylum seekers.