Internal document shows CBP protected agent involved in racist and violent Facebook group from firing.
“In one case, an employee who was recommended for removal had their penalty reduced to a seven-day suspension."
dailykos.com/stories/2020/7… #DefundCBP
Only four out of nearly 140 border agents investigated for their membership in a Facebook group that mocked the death of a migrant child in custody and shared other violent content were fired: dailykos.com/stories/2020/7… #DefundCBP
A DHS advisory council subcommittee in 2015 noted the unprecedented corruption among CBP agents, finding that “arrests for corruption of CBP personnel far exceed, on a per capita basis, such arrests at other federal law enforcement agencies." propublica.org/article/border… #DefundCBP
"Every yr, approximately 250 CBP employees are arrested, many on suspicion of serious felonies; dozens have been jailed in recent yrs on corruption charges ...
During the Obama yrs, critics decried a series of incidents in which Border Patrol agents shot civilians..." #DefundCBP
ProPublica in 2019: "[E]ach yr the agency 'receives and reviews hundreds of allegations' of excessive force. This year, CBP paid $125,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a Border Patrol agent groped the breasts and genitals of two teenage Guatemalan girls detained in TX." #DefundCBP
Advocates described CBP's oversight system "as a black hole, a vortex in which serious complaints are ignored or lost, simple investigations drag on for yrs, and victims are barred from learning whether employees who’ve harmed them have been sanctioned in any way." #DefundCBP
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