{"id":14967,"date":"2019-07-02T06:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T10:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=14967"},"modified":"2019-07-02T06:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T10:22:26","slug":"us-border-patrol-investigate-disturbing-secret-facebook-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/07\/02\/us-border-patrol-investigate-disturbing-secret-facebook-group\/","title":{"rendered":"US Border Patrol investigate \u2018disturbing\u2019 secret Facebook group"},"content":{"rendered":"

US officials are investigating a secret Facebook group where border patrol members allegedly posted racist and sexist jokes about migrants.<\/p>\n

The private group was called “I’m 10-15” and had about 9,500 members, including former and current border patrol agents,\u00a0ProPublica reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some posts mocked migrant deaths, while others targeted Latino members of Congress, ProPublica said.<\/p>\n

The Border Patrol chief has called the posts “completely inappropriate”.<\/p>\n

“Any employees found to have violated our standards of conduct will be held accountable,” Carla Provost said.<\/p>\n

According to ProPublica, members of the group mocked Latino members of Congress who visited migrant detention centres in Texas on Monday.<\/p>\n

Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Veronica Escobar were among those said to be targeted, with members calling them “hoes” and scum buckets”.<\/p>\n

In one post, a member reportedly suggested throwing burritos at them, while another depicted a doctored image that showed Ms Ocasio-Cortez performing a sex act.<\/p>\n

The BBC was not able to independently verify the existence of the private group, which is not publicly accessible on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Matthew Klein, an assistant commissioner at the CBP, said the Department of Homeland Security has launched an investigation into the group, which violated the agency’s code of conduct.<\/p>\n

He said a number of CBP agents may be members of the group, without elaborating on their roles.<\/p>\n

Ms Ocasio-Cortez said the posts did not surprise her, saying it was “indicative” of what she saw while visiting migrant detention centres on Monday.<\/p>\n

On Twitter, she claimed that border patrol officers had told women in cells to “drink out of the toilets”.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not just the kids. It\u2019s everyone. People drinking out of toilets, officers laughing in front of members Congress.<\/p>\n

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“I see why CBP officers were being so physically and sexually threatening towards me,” she tweeted after the trip.<\/p>\n

The CBP has not officially responded to her comments.<\/p>\n

However, a DHS official, who spoke on condition of anonymity,\u00a0told the Washington Post that drinking water was available<\/a>, and no border agent would force migrants to drink from a toilet.<\/p>\n

Ms Ocasio-Cortez and other lawmakers toured detention centres days after a harrowing picture of a drowned man and his daughter in the Rio Grande brought the migration crisis into sharp focus.<\/p>\n

Since taking office in 2017, US President Donald Trump had adopted tougher policies in an attempt to reduce the number of undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Mexico reached a deal with the Trump administration to try to stem the flow of undocumented migrants travelling to the US.<\/p>\n

Since then, deportations and detentions of undocumented migrants have reportedly increased.<\/p>\n

In February, Mr Trump declared an emergency on the country’s southern border, saying it was necessary to tackle what he said was a crisis there.<\/p>\n

Last week, the US Congress approved a $4.5bn (\u00a33.5bn) humanitarian aid package for the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n

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