Former Senior Border Patrol Agent turned immigrant rights activist. Expert on BP corruption. Advisor, speaker writer on BP. 
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Thread: After 9/11, the Border Patrol aligned itself w/anti-immigrant hate groups. Union reps were invited to speak at conferences like the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform. Here is Union rep and Agent Hector Garza. He was also a member of the FB group "I'm 10-15."pic.twitter.com/2hjjvAIgks
2) These hate groups have been labeled as such by the Southern Poverty Law Center for years. Their creator was John Tanton, a famous racist who believed that America was becoming less white because of immigration by Latinos.https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2010/nativist-extremist-group-list …
3) Border Patrol union reps were invited to speak at their conferences. Those hate groups gave those agents their propaganda. The agents in turn distributed it to the agents. All these sites are run by racist hate groups. Here is a screenshot taken from their website years ago:pic.twitter.com/z2GJ7S4TlQ
4) Speech describing immigration from Central Americans is described as an "invasion" by these groups. Asylum seekers are "criminals." Misleading & even false statistics are used by these groups. They are then given to agents who repeat them. http://www.aicfoundation.com/cartoons/
5) Border Patrol union reps regularly testify to Congress. They are only influenced by these agencies. Their testimony is slanted towards this propaganda. Congress is not aware of this and believes that their testimony is coming from an agent's point of view.
6) The Border Patrol union even has a podcast that is funded and produced by Brietbart, the alt-right racist media outlet. Union reps like Hector Garza and Art del Cueto (also a member of the FB group) talk for hours about the propaganda they learn from the hate groups.
7) https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-green-line … They spread lies and claim that immigrants are criminals...rapists, murderers, and drug dealers. Sound familiar? That's right. It's the same rhetoric .@POTUS uses day after day. It's the same speech that the El Paso shooter used.
8) It's the same words used by many Republicans. it is racist, xenophobic and hate-filled. Trump has placed many of the leaders of these hate groups in the various immigration agencies to further spread the propaganda.https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2019/06/24/471398/anti-immigrant-extremists-charge-u-s-immigration-system/ …
9) .@repjohnlewis If you want to stop the shootings, you have to stop the hate propaganda. I have never seen an law enforcement agency so controlled and manipulated by a hate group as the Border Patrol. What agency lets it's officers have a podcast to spread lies?
10) This is why the agents are so indifferent to the inhumane treatment of those in their custody. This is why they allow people to die in their custody. This is why they use racist terms for migrants. This is why they sell t-shirts with those names on it.pic.twitter.com/zVs5OdEsvA
11) This is why the .@USBPChief was a member of that FB group. This is their propaganda spread on Border Patrol social media pages:pic.twitter.com/RADppta9iE
14) The Border Patrol is feeding its agents hate filled propaganda from these hate groups 24/7, from the top to the bottom. They are taught this in the academy and it is reinforced at the station level by local union reps and by the national union. This cannot continue.
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