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Appears current and former border patrol agents joked about the death of migrants and made derogatory comments about latino members of congress. propublica first reported the group and nbc news has not yet independently verified the group and has not seen the posts directly. according to propublica, the facebook group is created in august of 2016. it has about 9,500 members and is called i'm in 1015. 1015 is border patrol code for aliens in custody. propublica received images of several discussions in the facebook group and was able to link the participants of that online conversations to appa...

To anything good. so the question now is how is congress going to respond to this? because the problem here is really what the members of congress are trying to highlight which is there's a lack of accountability. a lack of oversight. we now know according to propublica's reporting that these accounts are linked to real border patrol agents. people who they could tomorrow go and get and punish and punish publicly in order to try and staunch this culture that is being created in the institutions so the pressure is really on congress because this has already gone on -- let's say this account has...

Congress. i will say the republicans do want border security. the democrats want open borders. open borders means tremendous crime. >> so heidi, if you read through some of the posts on the facebook page as reported by propublica, again, we haven't independently seen those at nbc news, but they're obviously disgusting an obviously reprehensible the way they talk about the people in the facilities and members of congress. but this is members of congress getting their firsthand view and not having to tweet from washington. and seeing the conditions for themselves yesterday. >> we're talking, wil...