Border personnel are investigated for role in Facebook group with violent and sexist posts
by Molly O'Toole, Los Angeles Times
Jul 16, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - Seventy current and former Customs and Border Protection personnel are under investigation as part of an administrative probe into a secret Facebook group in which members used dehumanizing and derogatory language toward Latina members of Congress and deceased migrants.
On Monday, officials for the first time provided details of the recently launched federal investigation into the 9,500-member group, known as "I'm 10-15," the code used by Border Patrol for migrants in custody.
The probe was spurred by a ProPublica report that revealed the existence
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