U.S. Border Patrol Council issues statement with 'easily disprovable lies' about AOC and site visit
Jen Hayden
Daily Kos Staff
Tuesday July 02, 2019 · 12:11 PM EDT
Monday some members of Congress were allowed into the El Paso detention center to see what the conditions are like for migrants after reports of unsanitary and cruel confinement for asylum seekers, many of whom are being detained separately from their children. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the visitors in an oversight trip arranged by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Unfortunately, only hours before her visit, she was featured in a bombshell story from ProPublica about a secret Facebook group with 9,500 U.S. Border Patrol members where some members shared vile, racist, and misogynist comments and memes, one of which was a sexist cartoon of AOC engaged in a sex act with a detained migrant.
As news of the ProPublica exposé went viral, the National Border Patrol Council, which represents Border Patrol employees, released a statement on the “I’m 10-15” Facebook group (“10-15” Border Patrol code for “aliens in custody”) and noted that not everyone in the group is a current employee of the Border Patrol. In their effort to do damage control, they essentially said the awful comments were from a few bad apples. And then they attributed statements to AOC that she did not, in fact, say, specifically that she called agents “Nazis.”
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/2/1868949/-US-Border-Patrol-Council-issues-statement-with-easily-disprovable-lies-about-AOC-and-site-visit
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