Top immigration official lost job over anti-Muslim posts on Facebook: report
Source: the hill
By Morgan Gstalter - 09/01/18 08:14 AM EDT
A U.S. Army director who was recently offered a top position with U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) will reportedly no longer take the post after Buzzfeed unearthed his previous Facebook posts.
Guy Sands-Pingot, a brigadier general, was slated to start as a new USCIS deputy director in September, Buzzfeed News reported late Friday.
But the news outlet unearthed some of his Facebook posts from more than two years ago that showed he reposted anti-Muslim articles and compared Islam to the Nazi party.
When Buzzfeed asked USCIS about the posts, a spokesman said the candidate would no longer be hired.
The posts are no longer available publicly.
Sands-Pingot allegedly bashed Muslim intellectuals and the “political axis” for describing terrorists attacks as solitary acts of violence rather than a result of Islam beliefs.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/404666-top-immigration-official-lost-job-over-anti-muslim-posts-on-facebook
Whow. What a bigot. Lots of his past Facebook postings at link.
From my reading, he was in the Army while posting these vile posts!!
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An Army Director Hired To A Top Immigration Post Spewed Anti-Muslim Comments On Facebook — Then He Lost The Job
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/top-immigration-uscis-anti-muslim-facebook
Guy Sands-Pingot, who once compared Islam to the Nazi party in a Facebook comment, was hired as a deputy director at US Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency. He will now not fill the role.
Last updated on September 1, 2018, at 12:19 a.m. ET
Posted on August 31, 2018, at 11:55 p.m. ET
A US Army director recently offered a job by the federal agency that oversees immigration applications to be its deputy director made anti-Muslim statements and posts on Facebook in recent years.
Guy Sands-Pingot, who was at one point a brigadier general, was tapped to be deputy director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services agency (USCIS) and was slated to begin in mid-September. Sands-Pingot would have served under an administration that is seeking to significantly cut back on the number of legal and undocumented immigrants and has, with the travel ban, targeted Muslim-majority countries. He would have also helped oversee an agency that recently created a denaturalization unit....................................
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