GOP lawmakers demand Immigration Services fire worker who defended migrants on social media

A group of Republican lawmakers led by Rep. Nancy Mace is demanding US Citizenship and Immigration Services fire an employee who trim videos and made different societal media posts praising forbidden immigrants.

Mace (R-SC) and 3 different Republican reps alleged that posts from Wilson Osorio, an subordinate counsel astatine USCIS, encouraged forbidden immigrants to flout US laws.

“Wilson Osorio, has seen fresh to usage YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram to promote aliens from Latin America to travel to nan United States illegally—putting American citizens arsenic good arsenic aliens who activity to participate our state illegally astatine risk,” nan lawmakers wrote successful a missive to USCIS head Ur Jaddou Tuesday.

A caller study from blimpish guidance investigation firm American Accountability Foundation cited a slew of examples successful which Osorio made galore societal media posts puffing up migrants. Fox News first reported AAF’s findings.

“Undocumented immigrants play an important domiciled in US infrastructure,” 1 TikTok station from Osorio unearthed by AAF said, citing a family from El Salvador. “I was besides told that contempt not having papers, they salary their taxes to Uncle Sam.”

Osorio’s societal media posts of that quality began astir July, but his accounts person since been switched to private.

“The American Dream is live and well. This is nan communicative of a Honduran migrant who entered nan United States illegally [around] 20 years ago. With difficult activity and dedication, he is now nan proprietor of an expanding edifice which brings successful complete $1 cardinal successful sales,” different societal media station he made connected his Instagram said, per a screenshot from AAF. 

One video explanation written successful Spanish from Ososrio translated to: “In nan US you activity difficult for your money but crossing nan separator was worthy it. Thanks to my activity here, I built a location successful Honduras and I will soon beryllium moving back.”

Mace was joined successful nan request for his termination by Reps. Andy Harris (R-Md.), Ralph Norman (R-SC) and Jeff Duncan (R-SC).

The lawmakers stressed that Osorio’s posts came “while receiving his taxpayer-funded net from USCIS, nan agency charged pinch overseeing lawful immigration.”

They besides underscored nan repercussions of forbidden immigration, calling it a “scourge connected our nation” and noted that since fiscal twelvemonth 2021, US Customs and Border Patrol has “encountered astatine slightest 392 forbidden aliens connected nan violent watchlist.”

“We person already seen countless American citizens assaulted, raped, and murdered by forbidden aliens who person nary correct to beryllium successful our country. These criminal aliens who participate our state illegally—which is being
encouraged by Wilson Osorio—pose a superior threat to American citizens,” they added.

Prior to joining USCIS, Osorio worked arsenic an migration counsel to current Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)

“Encouraging forbidden migration is not compassionate, it is cruel. The treacherous travel for forbidden aliens from Latin America to nan United States is controlled by criminal cartels and coyotes, who unit forbidden aliens, including women and children, into indentured servitude, activity slavery, and supplier trafficking to salary their measurement to nan United States,” nan lawmakers added.

The Post contacted DHS and USCIS for comment.

AAF released its findings connected Osorio alongside a caller website titled “The DHS Watchlist” listing retired scores of authorities officials it described arsenic “radical leftist” bureaucrats that could stay holdovers from nan Biden-Harris administration.

A DHS spokesperson blasted AAF’s database astatine nan time, telling The Post, “We powerfully condemn immoderate effort to harass authorities officials, aliases immoderate American, successful this heightened threat environment.”