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Today's event honoring @CBP and @ICEgov overlooks:
• Killing a 16 year old by forcing him to drink an entire bottle of liquid meth
• Shooting another 16 yo in the back across the US-Mexico border
• Carrying out Trump's brutal family separation policy
• Countless other abuses
We should be limiting the ability @CBP has to terrorize migrants and our border, and violate our rights.

CBP lives within the Department of Homeland Security, and the agency is one of the Trump administration's key tools to enact its racist agenda. Both must be held accountable.
Congress is debating DHS funding now and we demand that our elected leaders put this department in check.

Our tax dollars shouldn't be used to fund the abuse of immigrants. Period. aclu.org/defund-dhsTW
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