This training program enables Trump's deportation machine by grooming
Boy Scouts to become Border Patrol agents.    

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Tell the Boy Scouts to end their partnership with Border Patrol! 
  

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John,

The Boy Scouts are enabling deportations at the border.^1 The Boy Scouts
of America are aiding in the criminalization of Black and Latinx
immigrants at the United States-Mexico border by participating in a
program called the Border Patrol Law Enforcement Explorer Program.^2 This
program grooms children to become Border Patrol agents and it must be
stopped.^3 President Trump’s Border Patrol agents routinely target racial
minorities, separate children from their parents at the border, and carry
out his racist and xenophobic agenda. The Boy Scouts’ choice to
participate in such a program is both disturbing and unacceptable. 

[ [link removed] ]The Boy Scouts must immediately end their partnership with Border
Patrol.  

Trump and his administration continually demonize Black and Latinx people,
and use Border Patrol to create fear in our communities. From only
checking the IDs of “people who had accents or were not white,” to
stopping someone because their “shoes looked suspicious,” to arresting a
Jamaican woman despite her legal entrance into the country to visit her
granddaughter, Border Patrol has been given free rein.^4 5 6 Border Patrol
is the same government organization that boarded Greyhound buses and
racially profiled passengers to target them about their immigration
status. Yet the Boy Scouts happily partner with the Border Patrol Law
Enforcement Explorer Program. 

[ [link removed] ]We must stop to this program. Tell the Boy Scouts of America to cut
ties with Border Patrol. 

This kind of behavior from the Boy Scouts is not new; the organization has
a history of racism. It refused to desegregate until 1974 — 20 years after
school segregation was outlawed and 10 years after the Civil Rights Act
was passed. 

The stakes are high: anti-immigration policies are becoming more and more
extreme each day, and children continue to be separated from their parents
at the border. Still, the Boy Scouts choose to participate in a program
that actively breaks families apart. Although they claim to “train youth
in responsible citizenship, character development, and self-reliance,”
their participation in the Border Patrol Law Enforcement Explorer Program
directly contradicts those values.^7 

[ [link removed] ]Tell the Boy Scouts of America to reconnect with their own values and
end their partnership with the Border Patrol Law Enforcement Explorer
Program. 

Until justice is real, 
—Brandi, Rashad, Arisha, Evan, Johnny, Future, Samantha, Eesha, Marcus,
FolaSade, and the rest of the Color Of Change team

References: 

 1. Isi Litke, Twitter, July 8, 2019,
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 2. “Border Patrol Law Enforcement Explorer Program,” U.S. Customs and
Border Protection, July 22, 2019,
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 3. “Border Patrol Youth Program Trains Children as Young as 14 to Become
Agents,” KUT News, November 20, 2017,
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 4. "Primary Source: Border Patrol — and Scaramucci — Tied to the Valley,"
Valley News, August 2, 2017, 
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 5. "Border Patrol Stopped an Undocumented Man at the Indio Greyhound
Station Because His 'Shoes Looked Suspicious,'" The Desert Sun, March
21, 2018, 
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 6. "Trump Said He'd Round up 'Bad Hombres.' How Did a Jamaican Grandma
Get on That List?" Miami Herald, January 23, 2018, 
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 7. “About the BSA,” Boy Scouts of America,
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