Border Patrol’s West Texas Twitter deactivated after liking offensive posts about Pete Buttigieg

Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaking with attendees at the Moving America Forward Forum hosted by United for Infrastructure at the Student Union at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada – 16 February 2020.
Photo: Gage Skidmore – Wikimedia Commons

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has shut down the Twitter account for the agency’s West Texas division after it retweeted and liked questionable content, including offensive tweets about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

“U.S. Customs and Border Protection has become aware of unauthorized and inappropriate content that was posted to the @CBPWestTexas Twitter account,” CBP commissioner Chris Magnus said in a statement released on Saturday. “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 the administration and our work to rebuild a humane, orderly, and secure immigration system.”

Magnus added that it was “totally unacceptable and disappointing that any CBP Twitter account was used to R/T offensive, unauthorized content.”

On September 10 the @CBPWestTexas Twitter account retweeted two posts from…

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