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NEW: We obtained new documents regarding Customs and Border Protection's 2017 use of the hashtag #CatchOfTheDay to describe immigrants apprehended at the border: americanoversight.org/documents-reve…
Prior productions from CBP showed that a week after the tweet and two days after our FOIA request, a CBP media officer had to remind employees not to use such dehumanizing language: buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfo…
The new set of emails reveal that CBP public affairs officials had a meeting in which they discussed a "request from NGO upset about twitter account referring to drug bust as ‘Catch of the Day.’” documentcloud.org/documents/5450…
In another email, the media officer explained the situation to another official: “‘Catch of the day’ was actually being used in reference to people by more than one PAO… Sadder still, an NGO has FOIA’d all such references to it…Ugh!” documentcloud.org/documents/5450…
The emails also show that Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan tried to make himself the “public representative of the Wall, Travel ban, [and] Counter-Border Immigration” while serving as the head of CBP in 2017: documentcloud.org/documents/5450…
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