Border Patrol agents humiliated an immigrant by forcing him to hold an 'I like men' sign

[DonViejo]

Source: LGBTQ Nation


The agents laughed at the immigrant.

By Alex Bollinger Friday, July 5, 2019

Border Patrol agents laughed at a male immigrant being held at a processing center in Texas who was forced to walk around with a sign that said, “I like men.”

According to emails sent by an agent who witnessed the incident, a Honduran man was paraded around the El Paso Processing Center in front of other migrants while holding a sign that said, “Me gustan los hombres,” which means “I like men” in Spanish.

Link to tweet

The agent who sent the emails said that he confronted the agent who wrote the sign and another who was laughing. The Honduran man was upset, according to the witness, who took away the sign and gave him another. The emails say that seven other agents witnessed the incident, which happened in March, and that a senior agent did nothing.

“I am forwarding to the Office of Professional Responsibility, the office charged with looking into these allegations,” a Customs and Border Patrol official told CNN when asked about it.


Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/border-patrol-agents-humiliated-immigrant-forcing-hold-like-men-sign/

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Disgusting on so many fucking levels.

I wonder is some will recognize the homophobia in this.

[Saviolo]

4. Wrapped up in a nice little package.

Racism, homophobia, fascism, violence, humiliation. Can all of this be over, yet? How can anyone look at what's happening and think, "Yeah, I'm okay with what's happening. No problem."

Hard to believe we have that many sociopaths in society, but here we are, I guess?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. Echoes of Abu Ghraib. nt

[alwaysinasnit]

9. That was the first thing that popped into my head when I read this post. It is the same mentality.

[meadowlander]

13. Probably some of the same people.

It's not like they faced real consequences the first time or, if they did, it would disqualify them from a job with ICE.

[Maxheader]

14. Yep, bush accepted degeneration...

as part of "war"....STumpy will probably be thrilled about this...

[csziggy]

20. Shades of the Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) was a social psychology experiment that attempted to investigate the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners and prison officers. It was conducted at Stanford University on the days of August 14–20, 1971, by a research group led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo using college students.[1] In the study, volunteers were randomly assigned to be either "guards" or "prisoners" in a mock prison, with Zimbardo himself serving as the superintendent. Several "prisoners" left mid-experiment, and the whole experiment was abandoned after six days. Early reports on experimental results claimed that students quickly embraced their assigned roles, with some guards enforcing authoritarian measures and ultimately subjecting some prisoners to psychological torture, while many prisoners passively accepted psychological abuse and, by the officers' request, actively harassed other prisoners who tried to stop it. The experiment has been described in many introductory social psychology textbooks,[2] although some have chosen to exclude it because its methodology is sometimes questioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

[bornsunny]

25. Stanford Prison Experiment

Who would've thought that a near 50 yr old experiment would be so relevant today.?!?!

[csziggy]

29. Human nature does not change

The Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram Experiment both prove that unless there are checks, people will exert as much power as possible - in the case of the Milgram Experiment, literally.

[pangaia]

3. "Jewish Star.." this is how it is done... different,, but... the same....

[louis-t]

5. This post in juxtaposition with a complaint from Border Patrol

agent that said AOC was trying to "dehumanize" the Border Patrol.

[IronLionZion]

6. Racism and homophobia

dehumanizing both types of people as a way to justify bad treatment

[Jopin Klobe]

7. Our joyous and well-trained border control staff ...

... are happy to assist you with all your needs ...

[link:|

... tick ... tick ... tick ...

[Judi Lynn]

11. Wow. They look deeply vicious, every one of them. Can't begin to imagine whom they are mocking. n/t

[Harker]

16. Imagine them in civilian clothes

rather than SS uniforms... they appear as "normal" people having fun. That's another whole level of scary, I think.

[Ilsa]

19. What a bizarre posture by those two women, stiff arms,

Shoulders pulled up, most of them with mouths gaping. I hope they all were bombed.

[LiberalFighter]

8. I would hope that those involved receive the harshest penalty possible

and forever suffer in their life.

[Mach1miles]

10. Shades of Gitmo. Nt

[rockfordfile]

17. That's what I was thinking. Fire them

[marble falls]

12. Two words about these "facilities": Abu Ghraib.

[SunSeeker]

15. K & R & retweeted for exposure.

[zanana1]

18. Camp Guantanamo again? nt

[ROB-ROX]

21. DAMN NAZIS

The damn NAZI keep coming back from the dead. Those who HATE people adopt the hate of their fore fathers the NAZI. Only when these people are removed from public service is JUSTICE for their public misuse of serving the public. I know immigrants are also part of the PUBLIC!!!!

[TrogL]

22. Authoritarianism will never leave us

Nazism is merely a symptom

[tblue37]

23. I don't understand what this part means:

The Honduran man was upset, according to the witness, who took away the sign and gave him another.

[LisaL]

28. If you take that literally, witness took away the sign and gave him some other sign.

Which doesn't really make sense to me either.

[gldstwmn]

24. Abu Ghraib all over again...

[Marthe48]

26. are cbp employees former Abu Ghraib guards?

Are they being trained by personnel who tormented prisoners at Abu Ghraib? Such as england, graner and others who tried and found guilty of torture there?

Also thinking of gina haspel and all of those other fine people representing the U.S. as they see fit.

Sad to say, our country has taken the low road for some time. What happened in Iraq, Thailand, Cuba, did not stay there.

[MBS]

27. LOATHSOME.

Despicable, shameful, and unAmerican, as well as inhumane.

[apnu]

30. Shades of Abu Ghraib.

They did all kinds of degrading stuff to prisoners there, so its a matter of time before we see people wearing only ponchos, standing on boxes above a wet floor with electrical wires attached to their bodies.