What Next - The Border Patrol's Secretive Culture
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
“I’m 10-15.” That’s the border patrol code for “alien in custody.” It's also the name of a secret Facebook group where a number of Customs and Border Protection agents posted racist and sexist memes. What about this agency allows such rampant misconduct?
Guest: A.C. Thompson, reporter at ProPublica. Read his story on the secret Border Patrol Facebook group.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Ethan Brooks.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a quick heads up. In this episode, I described some crude content that was found on a Facebook group for border patrol agents. |
| 0:06.0 | It's disturbing. It also mentions sexual assault. |
| 0:13.2 | Last week, Elijah Cummings gabbled to order the House Oversight Committee. |
| 0:21.2 | They were there to grill the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security. |
| 0:25.4 | Grillem about lapses and oversight at the border. |
| 0:28.3 | Kids being separated from their parents. |
| 0:30.5 | Kids being apprehended, then ignored. |
| 0:33.6 | You feel like you're doing a great job, right? |
| 0:36.0 | Is it what you're saying? |
| 0:37.0 | We're doing our level best in a very... |
| 0:38.7 | What does that mean? |
| 0:39.9 | What does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces? |
| 0:44.9 | Can't take a shower. |
| 0:47.1 | Come on, man. |
| 0:50.5 | What's that about? |
| 0:52.1 | None of us would have our children in that position. |
| 0:57.4 | They are human beings. |
| 1:00.1 | There was so much to talk about that it took three hours before the latest allegations even got brought up. |
| 1:06.3 | Allegations about some of the border agents themselves and the secret Facebook group where they seem to be mocking migrants, mocking members of Congress, too. |
| 1:14.9 | Mr. Secretary, are you aware of the ProPublica report indicating that there were about 10,000 potential current and former CBP officers in the violently racist and sexist Facebook group? |
| 1:27.2 | Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was the first to mention the group. |
| 1:31.4 | I am aware of the pro-public article, yes. |
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