I know this post is going to turn into a partisan debate, but I strongly urge everyone to read up about this disturbing group and recent CBP behavior and decide

I know this post is going to turn into a partisan debate, but I strongly urge everyone to read up about this disturbing group and recent CBP behavior and decide if this is acceptable for a armed and increasingly unaccountable federal police force, one that has had gained influence away from the border to regular citizens over the past decades. This is not a problem exclusive to this administration, these attitudes and actions have been going on for years and are wholly unacceptable for a nation that claims to respect human rights: https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-face... https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone https://theintercept.com/2019/07/05/border-patrol-facebook-group/ https://theintercept.com/2019/07/05/border-patrol-facebook-g... > On the topic of dead children, Eric Castillo separately posted a video of a large, child-sized portion of meat being wrapped in foil and then roasted over an open flame. The foil resembles the mylar blankets that unaccompanied children are given in Border Patrol custody. > “Little tonk blanket ideas!” Castillo wrote. ["Tonk" referring to the sound of beating someone in the head with a flashlight] >When a member of the group raised the point that “’I was just following orders’ hasn’t been an effective defense in about 72 years,” Bob Wilkinson, who lists his former occupation as Border Patrol supervisor and his current occupation as a U.S. government contractor, replied, “Are you a PA or a fucking snowflake.” Wilkinson went on to write that while he had “never killed anyone,” he had “used my share of force.” “The fact that the President recognizes rocks as deadly weapons is a good thing,” he wrote. > At that point, Castillo joined the conversation, lamenting about missing an opportunity to shoot a migrant while on the job. “Bro im gonna go home alive to my family and stop the threat!!” he wrote. “See it how you will. Ive been rocked before and missed my chance to pop a round before due to me falling to avoid the rock.. Fucker ran back to the river..But I learned for next time.. Don’t be a freaking debbie downer bro..” > Before long, group members, including Gabriel Gonzalez, Zack Smith, Anthony Ramos, Rick Mora Jr., and Michael Scherer, were sharing photos of documents — including what appears to be intake forms — that showed migrants’ names. Christian Macias added photos of government IDs belonging to five different individuals to the comment thread. > On May 31, a user shared an image of the U.S. embassy in Honduras on fire. “Easy enough to do the same thing to all their asylum paperwork…” Gamel Lechner commented.