Blocked by Twitter for promoting the construction of President Trump’s border wall, the acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection this afternoon blasted the social media platform for shutting him down.
“Twitter is out of control in their clear bias against this administration and their blatant censorship of anything that may go against the policies of those who sit in cubicles in Silicon Valley,” said Mark Morgan.
“America is going down a dangerous road if we do not stand up for free speech and free thought — regardless of our beliefs,” he added.
His account was locked Wednesday when he celebrated the advances of the wall on his Twitter account, @CBPMarkMorgan.
The agency has been highlighting its successes in curbing illegal immigration and the interdiction of drugs and human trafficking as the presidential election comes to an end. He has also been decrying Joe Biden’s open border plans.
Twitter called his statements of fact, including statistics, promotion of violence.
Morgan has been one of the president’s most aggressive combatants on illegal immigration and has regularly called out Democrats in Congress for not passing laws to reform immigration.
Today he said that Twitter was not only muzzling him but crushing democracy.
“What makes America the envy of the world are the precious rights we share, such as the freedom of expression and free and open exchange of ideas. We will not accept public social media platforms like Twitter that blatantly censor free and open communication with the American people simply because they don’t like the message. This censorship goes against the very ideas this great nation was founded on and the rights that many men and women have given their lives to preserve,” he said.
