Top immigration hire loses job offer over Islamophobic Facebook posts
An Army director who was hired for a top post at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) won’t be filling the role after all. On Friday, it was discovered by BuzzFeed News that the former brigadier general had made of a string of anti-Muslim Facebook posts, and he has since been let go.
Between 2015 and 2016, Guy Sands-Pingot, who had served in the Army for 28 years and was supposed to start his job as USCIS deputy director later this month, had reportedly posted (and since deleted) numerous Islamaphobic articles and memes. This included a photo of Jeff Foxworthy beside a Muslim caricature below the quote, “If you were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs, you may be a Muslim,” according to screenshots posted by BuzzFeed. In 2016,...