On Saturday, a Customs and Border Protection employee used an official Twitter account for the agency's West Texas division to promote homophobic and political content.
The organization's commissioner says CPB will deactivate the account, and he has opened an investigation.“U.S. Customs and Border Protection has become aware of unauthorized and inappropriate content that was posted to the @CBPWestTexas Twitter account.
CBP will take action to deactivate the account and has referred the matter to the Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate.
The tweets do not reflect the values of this administration and our work to rebuild a humane, orderly, and secure immigration system,” the agency said in a statement, El Paso Matters reports.The Twitter account for the West Texas region of CBP, based in El Paso, retweeted and liked several tweets Saturday by former Trump administration adviser Stephen Miller and other sources criticizing the Biden administration.Additionally, the person liked a tweet that used a homophobic slur to refer to gay Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.American Immigration Council policy director Aaron Reichlin-Melnick captured the inappropriate Twitter activity and posted screenshots of the account’s activities.