Racist Border Patrol Facebook group confirms all your worst suspicions

Border Patrol agents are only sort of trying to hide it.

On Monday, investigative non-profit ProPublica dropped a bombshell report revealing a "secret" U.S. Border Patrol Facebook group full of racist and misogynist content targeting both migrant families and elected officials such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It's incredibly vile stuff, and confirms many of the worst suspicions regarding the agency accused of running "torture facilities."

Just what kind of content, exactly, does this 9,500-member strong Facebook group of reportedly current and former Border Patrol members champion? Why that would be memes mocking dead migrant children, photoshopped images of elected officials performing sex acts, and discussions of throwing things at elected officials who visit Border Patrol detention facilities.

ProPublica says it was able to link comments from several discussions in the group to "apparently legitimate" Facebook profiles belonging to confirmed members of the U.S. Border Patrol.

The Facebook group, which ProPublica reports was created in 2016, is titled "I’m 10-15," a reference to Border Patrol's code for "aliens in custody."

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"It confirms some of the worst criticisms of Customs and Border Protection," Rep. Joaquin Castro told ProPublica. "These are clearly agents who are desensitized to the point of being dangerous to migrants and their co-workers."

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Ocasio-Cortez shared the article on Twitter, along with a strong condemnation of what it revealed.

"9,500 CBP officers sharing memes about dead migrants and discussing violence and sexual misconduct towards members of Congress," she wrote. "How on earth can CBP’s culture be trusted to care for refugees humanely?"

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Ocasio-Cortez wasn't finished.

"There are 20,000 TOTAL Customs & Border Patrol agents in the US," added the congresswoman. "9,500 - almost HALF that number - are in a racist & sexually violent secret CBP Facebook group. They’re threatening violence on members of Congress. How do you think they're treating caged children+families?"

This report serves as a reminder that nothing you do on Facebook — in a private group or otherwise — will stay private forever. Especially, it seems, if you're a racist working for the U.S. government.