Multiple Border Agents face little discipline for lewd social media posts after an investigation was completed by Customs and Border Patrol. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET.
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“On Monday, we finally learned the outcome of a congressional investigation into the 9,500-member Customs and Border Protection Facebook group in which members posted a doctored image of “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant” and made jokes about the deaths of migrants.
In July 2019, ProPublica published the blockbuster report exposing the group and its members’ conduct. The agency chief at the time, Carla Provost, promised swift action, saying “these posts are completely inappropriate” and that agents “will be held accountable.”
But in the two years since, the public heard virtually nothing from Customs and Border Protection, the more-than-45,000-person agency charged with overseeing U.S. borders, about what that discipline would look like, as the Trump administration stymied attempts at congressional oversight. Ultimately, a report from the committee investigating the agency showed that the worst offenders—including those who posted disparaging comments about dead migrant children and those who shared the sexually abusive photoshopped depictions of Ocasio-Cortez—were recommended to be removed. Yet, in almost every instance, the recommendations were overturned by senior CBP officials. Many offenders received no discipline at all.”
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