A border patrol agent allegedly made a male migrant in his care carry around a sign that said 'I like men' as punishment while co-workers laughed

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A border patrol agent allegedly made a male migrant in his care carry around a sign that said 'I like men' as punishment while co-workers laughed
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The migrant was clearly upset by the incident, said the agent in his email. But hen the agent reported the incident to a senior official in charge of the center, no action was taken, he said.

A new report out of a migrant processing center in West Texas claims that Customs and Border Patrol agents attempted to shame a Honduran migrant by making him sign up a sign that read"I like men."

The agent at the processing center, located in El Paso, said he witnessed an agent give the sign to the migrant and then told him to walk in front of a group of other migrant men while holding it up. The agent who wrote the email saw that two members of border patrol were laughing about the incident and when he told them that they were not being professional, they did not respond.

U.S. Border Patrol agents watch over immigrants after taking them into custody on July 2, 2019, in Los Ebanos, Texas.on a private Facebook group for Border Patrol agents where some joked about the deaths and dehumanization of migrants in their care.

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