an investigation has been launched into the west texas border patrol agency s retweets after they shared twitter posts made by stephen miller. the head of border protection called the retweets unacceptable. josh campbell has been following developments and joins us from los angeles. walk us through this. morning. most law enforcement agencies are reserved in their use of social media they have guidelines what they cannot say. which is why this garnered attention when they retweeted posts from former trump adviser stephen miller. he created controversy in the past, including to one reporting a cabinet meeting when he claimed that continuing to allow afghan allies and middle east refugees into the united states would create a bunch of iraqs
when the united states withdrew from afghanistan. as you said, they point to stephen miller. top advisor to former president donald trump, who was known for his hard line views on immigration as the driving force for the slowdown of this process. now, one person described a 2018 white house meeting. during that meeting this person said that miller said, quote, what do you guys want? he went on to say a bunch of iraqs and sands across the country? this stunned officials who tried to convey to the trump administration that refugees are among the most vetted immigrants who come to the united states, particularly afghan allies who have worked along with u.s. troops and on behalf of the u.s. government and are vetted prior to that work. but still the suspicion of refugees by the trump administration stalled this already cumbersome process and led to a significant backlog that was inherited by the biden administration. as one former official told me, we lost time. now, refugee advocates and
because there s less of a guarantee of confidence and belief that this president is as popular as he was maybe just a week ago. donna, feel free to respond to that but i want to play you something olivia troy, our viewers are familiar with on this program. she said how the trump administration handled the issue of resettling afghan refugees talking about steven miller here. take a listen. you would say what do you want? do you want a little iraqs across the country, the united states? and it was hurtful to hear that and offensive to many of us in the room who had served on the ground in both countries. i ve been to both countries. these are the people that helped keep us alive, helped navigate us around the country and to hear this naive, hateful rhetoric being said in cabinet-level discussions when we re making decisions specifically on items like the refugee ceiling and what would happen on that, to hear that rhetoric.