A secret Facebook Group filled with a collection of derogatory jokes made by past and current Boarder Patrol officers has been uncovered.As people grieved over the photo released of the father and daughter face down in the Rio Grande, a Facebook Group “where Old Patrol meets New Patrol” made insentsitive comments towards them. Other post uncovered discuss throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility outside of El Paso. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a victim of multiple vulgar posts, spoke out against page saying, “This isn’t about “a few bad eggs.” This is a violent culture.” ProPublica reported Monday that they received screenshots of disturbing posts from the 10-15 Facebook group and was able to identify particpates to real profiles that belonged to Border Patrol agents. Particpants of the group include a supervisor based in El Paso and an agent in Eagle Pass. The page was created in August 2016 and has racked up over 9,000 members from across the country. This is only the most recent incident of law enforcement coming under fire for their digital disrespect. In early 2018, federal investigators found an accumulation of of racist text messages sent by Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona after searching the phone of Matthew Bowen, a U.S. Border Patrol Agent charged with hitting a migrant with his truck. The texts described migrants in multiple different derogatory terms, even referring to them as “subhuman”. Upon the text messages revealed in court, there were repeated discussions about burning the migrants up. “It confirms some of the worst critics of Customs and Boarder Protection,” says Joaquin Castro, head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Joaquin Castro. “These are clearly agents who are desensitized to the point of being dangerous to migrants and their co-workers.”
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