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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis framed photo of Tomi Lahren hangs in US Border Patrol headquarters
A large, framed photo of far-right commentator Tomi Lahren posing with US Border Patrol officials hangs prominently on the wall of the agencys headquarters in Washington, DC. A person with access to the area described the setting and shared a picture of it with Quartz.
Lahren, a vocal supporter of US president Donald Trump, has called immigrants shifty and adaptable, and has claimed they are bringing disease to the US. She regularly pushes alt-right conspiracy theories and believes an invasion by foreigners is overwhelming the country. She has also lashed out at Black Lives Matter, comparing the social justice movement to the Ku Klux Klan. She now hosts a talk show on the Fox Nation streaming service.
In the photo, Lahren is posing with (from left to right), Benjamine Carry Huffman, executive assistant commissioner for enterprise services at US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Border Patrol deputy chief Scott Luck, an unidentified man in a suit, Border Patrol chief Carla Provost, an unidentified member of the Border Patrols senior executive staff (in suit), and Richard Hudson, CBPs acting chief for law enforcement.
The photo is more evidence of widespread anti-immigrant sentiment at Border Patrol, whose members are often the first US law enforcement officers to interact with migrants when they cross the border. That the photo hangs at the agencys Washington headquarters suggests that the culture exists at the very top of the agency.
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Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)spanone
(135,834 posts)worse human being / 'president' ever
Initech
(100,076 posts)Applegate
(96 posts)And ICE, too.
Shut 'em and gut 'em.
Time to start over.
dalton99a
(81,495 posts)Duncan Grant
(8,264 posts)My inner George Carlin cant stop critiquing this. All of it.
Its just another forgettable offense during the Trump administration. Bookmarking for future reference, though.
Speaking of forgettable offenses and Im going off-topic here but whatever happened to that acting AG guy, Whitaker? Or Trumps CFO, Weisselberg, who knows where all the bodies are buried? Wasnt Michael Cohens testimony the tipping point? Stormy Daniels? Dying kids? Muslim ban? Love letters from North Korea?
Thankfully, somebody, somewhere, is playing 3-D chess. Its a comfort.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Takket
(21,568 posts)Honestly if you were a racist anti-immigrant person, what is your dream job? CBP! I doubt there are many people joining CBP because they in favor of streamlining immigration and support DACA and asylum seekers.