Letter to Mark Zuckerberg - Gooden Demands Facebook Preserve Documents for Future Investigations

Letter

Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,
We want to bring to your attention Facebook is actively assisting illegal immigrants coming to
the United States in violation of federal law. Therefore, we are requesting Facebook's assistance
in identifying and preventing the unprecedented flow of illegal immigrants into and throughout
the United States and the role Facebook has played in facilitating this influx of migrants.

Transnational criminal organizations rely on a range of companies, organizations, and services to
get illegal immigrants across the southern border, then transport and house them once they
arrive. These are companies that law-abiding Americans use every day, but whose services are
being used to facilitate the flow of deadly drugs and humans illegally across the
country. Numerous reports and Facebook's response have confirmed Facebook is allowing posts
promoting human smuggling, trafficking, and illegal entry into the United States to regularly
reach its billions of users and undermines the rule of law. Facebook is directly facilitating the
crisis of illegal immigration at our southern border and throughout the United States.  

Over 1.6 million immigrants have been apprehended at the southern border this year alone. Even
more alarming, 160,000 aliens have been released into the United States with little to no
oversight. This presents a significant safety risk to the American people. Additionally, criminal
organizations reportedly made up to $14 million a day in February by trafficking women,
children, and families across the U.S.-Mexico border. 

To reiterate, you and your staff could be subject to prosecution for violating Title 8, U.S.C. §
1324(a), which defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v)
prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or
harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United
States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection
1324(a)(2) prohibits bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States in
any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3). 
We want to remind Facebook of its mission to help end human trafficking for sex and other
purposes. Earlier this year, a Facebook spokesperson stated, "We prohibit human exploitation in
no uncertain terms," "We've been combatting human trafficking on our platform for many years
and our goal remains to prevent anyone who seeks to exploit others from having a home on
our platform." Multiple reports have proven this is an outright lie. Human trafficking and
smuggling are occurring on your platform right now and will continue tomorrow.

Given the potential misuse of taxpayer funds, violation of state and federal law and the continued
flow of illegal immigration, we request that you provide:

1. All internal or external reviews, studies, reports, data, analyses, and related communications
regarding your platform(s) and: 
a. Human trafficking, smuggling, requesting asylum, and illegally entering the United
States. 
b. Organizing and recruiting individuals to participate in mass migration caravans to or
across the southern border. 
c. Organizing, recruiting and providing resources to harbor and
facilitate illegal immigration throughout the United States  

2. All internal or external reviews, studies, reports, data, analyses, and related communications
regarding how your platform's/platforms' algorithms might contribute to any of the factors
described in request 1 above. 

3. All accounts, users, groups, events, messaging forums, marketplaces, posts, or other usergenerated content that was sanctioned, suspended, removed, throttled deprioritized, labeled,
suppressed, or banned from your platform(s) related to any of the items detailed in request 1
and 2. 

4. All requests by law enforcement or other Federal, State, or local government officials or
agencies for information relating to any of the items detailed in request 1 above, and the basis
for such requests. 

5. Internal communications, reports, documents, or other materials relating to internal employee
concerns about content on the platform associated with any of the items detailed in request
1 above. 

6. Additional screening measures to ensure your services are not being used to facilitate human
trafficking and human smuggling. 

7. All company policies and procedures currently in place or being developed to ensure your
services are not used to facilitate human trafficking and human smuggling. 

We sincerely hope Facebook is taking every step necessary to protect customers and the
American people by following federal law and preventing human trafficking.

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