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On the recordJuly 10, 2019
And if our colleagues have not read that article, Republican and Democrat, you should read that ProPublica article that was published last week, because it tells you exactly the problems with CBP right now and the culture at CBP. I want to read one thing. We were talking about the father, and when he and his daughter died they were face down on the river. She had her arm around him. So everybody saw that photo around the world and throughout the country. I want to tell you a post that was on this Facebook page, posted by a Border Patrol agent or a former Border Patrol agent, and so I am going to quote here. It says: ``Okay. I'm gonna go ahead and ask, have y'all ever seen floaters this clean? I'm not trying to be an `a,' but I have never seen floaters like this. Could this be another edited photo? We've all seen the Dems and liberal party do some pretty sick things.'' Now, that was his post. There were a few responses to that post. Some of them were memes. One of the memes had a Sesame Street character, and the language below the Sesame Street character says ``oh, well'' about these deaths. Another meme from another agent or former agent has a picture. There is a famous scene in a movie ``Rocky IV'' of the Russian fighter, and he uses a famous line for anybody who has ever seen it. The meme says, ``If he dies, he dies.'' They are talking about the little girl and the man who are hugging face down in the river.…
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Joaquin Castro
Democratic · Texas

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