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May 26, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
On Election Day 2018, public backlash forced the El Paso Border Patrol to scrap plans for a “crowd control exercise” near a Hispanic neighborhood. Newly released emails show the event essentially was a media stunt that drew heavy criticism within @CBP. 1/ elpasomatters.org/2021/05/26/cir…
“BP plans to make this interesting to excess,” one CBP official warned the week before. “Make sure the media are there. Especially (Mexican) media,” another official wrote. 2/
Jan 26, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1/ 8,000 Alaskan Natives are shareholders in a company that staffs an El Paso ICE detention facility.
Here’s how they’re connected:
elpasomatters.org/2021/01/26/the…2/ Bering Straits Native Corporation’s subsidiary, Global Precision Systems, is the contractor that staffs El Paso Service Processing Center, an ICE facility that recently had the largest COVID-19 outbreak among detainees in the nation.
