Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan Friday accused Twitter of blocking his account because his post about new wall construction "didn't fit" his critics' narrative and said "every American" should be concerned about Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's powers.
"All they had to do was reach out to us, ask us to provide some information, the data, and facts behind that, and we could have done that," Morgan said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "They would have seen the facts are out there to back it up. Let's be very clear about this. What they tried to do and want to do is obvious."
In his disputed tweet, Morgan said that every mile of border wall helps stop "gang members, murderers, sexual predators and drugs" from coming into the United States.
"My message that I have been sending out there is that this president has been overwhelmingly successful to give us tools and policies to address the immigration crisis," said Morgan. "I'm vocal against the critics. That's the narrative. It didn't fit their agenda and what they were trying to close down."
Earlier this week, Dorsey, while answering questions during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, said that tweets such as that from the ayatollah of Iran calling the Holocaust fake were not removed because "we considered them saber-rattling, which is part of the speech of world leaders in concert with other countries."
Morgan said that reasoning is "absurd."
"What every American citizen should be worried about now is Jack," said Morgan. "That man gets to decide. He is the judge, jury, and executioner about what is appropriate to say or not under the founding principles of our Constitution that made this country what it is. That is un-American. He should not have that ability and we should all be united to make sure that this ends."
He added that he thinks his account was blocked because Twitter saw the "immigration narrative starting to shift" to show Trump's successes.
He also denied his account was restored because of an appeal filed through the government.
"That don't pass the B.S. test," said Morgan. "We filed an appeal. They denied it. The American people spoke ... only then they said they had made a mistake."
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