"We serve the American people with vigilance, integrity and professionalism" is part of the ethos of the Customs and Border Protection, the agency charged with guarding America's borders. On July 1st ProPublica, an investigative journalism non-profit, exposed a private Facebook group of current and former border patrol agents who have been sharing comments about migrants and misogynist memes about Latina lawmakers. The group, which has some 9,500 members, is called "I'm10-15", code for aliens in custody. One commenter mocked a 16-year-old migrant's death. Another made fun of a man carrying his child in a plastic bag to cross a river: "At least it's already in a trash bag." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York representative who has called detention centres concentration camps, was crudely pho-toshopped into a sex act with a migrant and being sexually assaulted by the president.
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