One post discovered by BuzzFeed News described Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar as a “trojan horse” who came to the US because of a “refugee outbreak.”
SAN FRANCISCO — Two Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have shared or approved of social media posts that spread unfounded conspiracy theories about Rep. Ilhan Omar or caravans of migrants who travel through Mexico to seek refuge in the US, a BuzzFeed News review of their accounts reveals.
The post included a misleading video clip that claims to show Omar admitting to taking “terrorism classes.” Derewonko has been a prolific LinkedIn user, sharing and commenting on posts that have stated or insinuated that so-called caravans of Central American migrants were part of an election day “false flag” and that the caravan was the UN’s “invading force.”
Zahra Billoo, head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Northern California, said Templet’s activity was “concerning to say the least...seeing these posts worries me about [his] abilities to interact with Muslim and other immigration applicants without bias and a commitment to a fair application of the law.”
But Scott Shuchart, a former senior adviser at the Department of Homeland Security, said that while some of the posts were offensive, they were “legal speech, and so long as these ICE employees are using private devices on their own time, all I am is disgusted. I don’t believe there’s any cause for official action unless there’s a reason to think it’s abuse of public resources.”
The criticism comes just one year after David Jennings, the former San Francisco ICE field office director, shared an image on LinkedIn that depicted three patio umbrellas intended to resemble people in body-covering burqas along with the caption, “I spent 30 minutes talking to them to learn more about their culture until the barman told me they were umbrellas.”
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