The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said on Saturday that recent retweets made by the Twitter account for West Texas border patrol are “totally unacceptable” and will be investigated.
The account shared Twitter posts on Saturday made by former White House adviser Stephen Miller, a driving force behind former President Donald Trump’s immigration policy. The retweets were deleted from the CBP West Texas Twitter page, and Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that it would deactivate the account. Miller blasted the Biden administration’s decision to investigate the matter.
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“Totally unacceptable and disappointing that any CBP Twitter account was used to R/T offensive, unauthorized content,” CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus said on Saturday. “This must not happen again.”
Magnus added that the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility will investigate the incident.
Totally unacceptable and disappointing that any CBP Twitter account was used to R/T offensive, unauthorized content. We’ve removed the content and will deactivate the account. The Office of Professional Responsibility will investigate. This must not happen again. pic.twitter.com/O0Vwr3K7nI
— CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus (@CBPChrisMagnus) September 11, 2022
The posts shared by West Texas CBP included tweets made by Miller related to crime and tweets critical of President Joe Biden and the media.
“Violent criminals lay waste to our communities undisturbed while the immense power of the state is arrayed against those whose only crime is dissent,” Miller wrote in one of the tweets. “The law has been turned from a shield to protect the innocent into a sword to conquer them.”
What is up with the @CBPWestTexas Twitter feed right now? This is one of the most egregious examples I’ve ever seen of a US federal law enforcement agency defying elected political leadership in official communications. pic.twitter.com/iON2AmqPqs
— Adam Isacson (@adam_wola) September 10, 2022
“The media’s greatest power is its ability to frame what is a dire national crisis (eg ‘cops are racist’ summer ‘20) 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,” another tweet from Miller shared by West Texas CBP said.
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The former senior White House policy adviser and Trump speechwriter blasted the Biden administration on Sunday for its decision to investigate the incident, claiming that the administration is “going after agents” instead of “murderous cartels.”
“Joe Biden’s soulless open border crusade is killing thousands of innocents. Death and destruction everywhere. But instead of going after the murderous cartels, they are going after agents for RTs of pro-border messages. The Biden Administration hates the law and law enforcement,” Miller wrote in a tweet.
The West Texas CBP Twitter account had not been deactivated as of Monday morning.
