He then declared that the Trump administration is inflicting “torture” upon migrants and migrant children at the border for the sake of deterring illegal immigration:
“There ought to be prosecutions of some of the agency heads and some of the people for child abuse. This is clearly child abuse. It violates probably a half dozen laws. It’s just more of the administration determining to torture people in order to be a deterrent for people coming over the border which they no longer admit was the case but admitted it a few months ago.”
Border officials allegedly refused to grant lawyers access to "sickest" children at migrant facility https://t.co/rfNgS7oGK0 pic.twitter.com/XEmixPNmha
— The Hill (@thehill) July 1, 2019
New Scrutiny Facing Customs and Border Patrol Officials
Various members of Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are facing new scrutiny in light of screenshots from a Facebook group. These screenshots include flippant statements about the deaths of migrants and more.
2/ These are responses from #BorderPatrol agents to a post of a news story about a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant who died in May while in custody at a Border Patrol station in Weslaco, Texas. pic.twitter.com/OI8LDqyPLG
— ProPublica (@propublica) July 1, 2019
3/ Here, agents joke about throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress who are scheduled to visit a troubled Border Patrol facility today. pic.twitter.com/xqivtT8K3T
— ProPublica (@propublica) July 1, 2019
5/ We've linked many of the participants to apparently legitimate FB profiles belonging to Border Patrol agents, including a supervisor based in El Paso, Texas, and an agent in Eagle Pass, Texas. So far, we've been unable to reach the group members who made the postings.
— ProPublica (@propublica) July 1, 2019
