Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths, Post Sexist
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Source: ProPublica
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 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.
Created in August 2016, the Facebook group is called Im 10-15 and boasts roughly 9,500 members from across the country. (10-15 is Border Patrol code for aliens in custody.) The group described itself, in an online introduction, as a forum for funny and serious discussion about work with the patrol. Remember you are never alone in this family, the introduction said.
Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes#164072
The worst of the scum. This is repulsive and repuglican.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Every shitty thing you ever imagined happening in the camps, here it is, and heres whos doing it
KICK GODDAMIT
durablend
(7,460 posts)They'll find some "left-leaning" group discussing raising the minimum wage or outlawing guns or something then say "Both sides do it"
groundloop
(11,518 posts)Those motherfuckers are pure scum and don't deserve to draw the paycheck which we're funding.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)or brownshirts.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)is redundant.
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
they're no different from hitler's brownshirts as far as i can tell.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)They're Nazis.
awesomerwb1
(4,267 posts)kick
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)Violence will be imminent.
They will push us until they get it.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)1. Facebook needs to shut down this "private" group. Immediately. The images and quoted posts in the ProPublica article provide more than sufficient grounds for action; and
2. If Customs and Border Protection spokespeople do not respond to ProPublica's request for comment within 48 hours, the identities of these current and former agents should be made public.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,922 posts)zaj
(3,433 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)They're complicit.
UpInArms
(51,282 posts)It needs to be shut down.
AllaN01Bear
(18,168 posts)acivisem always activism to stop this kind of nonsense. if i were paying taxes for this felgercarbe id stop right now . fed up to here with this nonsense. i agree with one of the posters , needs to be shut down.
gopiscrap
(23,756 posts)they need to be fired, prosecuted and then hung out to dry!!! This is why other nations hate us. Everytime I travel overseas I get an earful about this sort of shit.
infullview
(981 posts)More of tRumps people showing their true selves.
gopiscrap
(23,756 posts)I think we should all weigh in and tell them what we think!
Gregory Peccary
(490 posts)..... Created in August 2016, the Facebook group is called Im 10-15 and boasts roughly 9,500 members from across the country. (10-15 is Border Patrol code for aliens in custody.)
Bettie
(16,093 posts)are there no standards of behavior for these people?
Guess it explains a whole lot.
FM123
(10,053 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,593 posts)Investigative reports are made up of opinion and analysis.
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