Border Patrol’s retweets of Stephen Miller are symptoms of a sick culture of racism.
One tweet, re-shared by the CBP’s West Texas account, claimed, “Violent criminals lay waste to our communities undisturbed while the immense power of the state is arrayed against those whose only crime is dissent. The law has been turned from a shield to protect the innocent into a sword to conquer them.”
Another invoked the border to suggest that the media and President Joe Biden were responsible for ushering in the end of America as we know it: The media’s greatest power is its ability to frame what is a dire national crisis and what is not. Biden’s eradication of our border means we are no longer a Republic—he’s ended nearly 250 years of constitutional government. The media is silent., but one thing is clear: This problem — that is, the issue of extremism in Texas' immigration enforcement — is deeper than tweets.
It’s troubling that any government agency would share such a maniacal message, but particularly so in West Texas, with its uniquely horrendous history of violent antagonism toward Mexican Americans. And as right-wing Texans in the CBP and elsewhere ramp up their rhetoric, there’s ample evidence showing that it can, and often does, lead to more violence.
The same town where the CBP’s West Texas office is located, El Paso, is the site of the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern U.S. history, a 2019
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