US CBP use Santa to make a point about legal immigration, netizens disappointed
US Customs and Border Protection joined government agencies in marking Christmas day, however, their Santa Claus immigration reference disappointed netizens.
The United States Customs and Border Protection joined several government agencies in marking Christmas day, however, their Santa Claus immigration reference disappointed many netizens who responded that hundreds of migrant families remain separated at the border. The CBP took to Twitter to post a picture of Santa holding a 'global entry' identification card on Christmas Eve. The post soon went viral and prompted several journalist, migrant activists and anti-Trump accounts to share pictures of immigrant children in cages at the US southern border.
Netizens disappointed
Apart from CBP, several US government accounts, including NORAD, 'tracked' Santa's movement and the Department of Agriculture also tweeted, “Santa and his nine reindeer have been issued a permit to enter the US”. Both the tweets soon started receiving a backlash from the netizens. One Twitter user wrote, “What sort of messed-up Regime jokes about detaining Santa and then has him pose with his papers?”, another Twitter user wrote, “Good thing he's white or he'd be sleeping under a roll of Reynolds Wrap”.
Published By : Bhavya Sukheja
Published On: 27 December 2019 at 21:56 IST