U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost in a statement said that employees will be held accountable.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized U.S. Customs and Border Protection Monday following a report that over 9,000 current and former Border Patrol agents are part of a secret Facebook group where some group members made fun of migrant deaths and created lewd edited images of the New York Democrat.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Monday, President Donald Trump sidestepped a question about the Facebook group, saying he did not know what members of the group were saying about members of Congress. However, the president said that"the Border Patrol is not happy with the Democrats in Congress.""The Border Patrol, they're patriots," he said."They're great people.
Following the ProPublica report, Matthew Klein, assistant commissioner of the Office of Professional Responsibility for CBP, said that an investigation has been initiated by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General.
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