[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Laura Loomer [@LauraLoomer](/creator/twitter/LauraLoomer) on x 1.7M followers Created: 2025-07-14 00:45:57 UTC 🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Customs Border Patrol (CBP) Senior National Security Advisor Who Oversees America's Crumbling Immigration Digital Vetting Infrastructure Has Anti-Trump, pro-Open Borders, and Pro-DEI Bias Monte Hawkins @montehawkins, a senior national security advisor and the Director of the National Vetting Center at CBP, has held influential roles across multiple U.S. administrations, including as a Senior Director for Transborder Security at the National Security Council (NSC) and the first Director of the National Vetting Center (NVC) under U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Tasked with overseeing the vetting of individuals entering the United States and developing the physical and IT infrastructure to support these processes, Hawkins’ tenure has been marked by significant challenges. From 2018 to at least 2022, he led the NVC, established under the National Security Presidential Memorandum to streamline vetting processes for border security and immigration. Despite his credentials, the systems under Hawkins’ oversight have faced persistent challenges, raising concerns about their effectiveness and reliability. Additionally, a 2023 statement attributed to Hawkins in Vanity Fair, describing a potential second Trump administration as a “revenge machine” targeting career officials highlights how Hawkins has an anti-Trump bias and doesn’t support the purging of Biden holdovers in the Trump administration. This is concerning given the fact that Hawkins supported Joe Biden, Biden supported Open Borders and Hawkins is now working as a Senior Advisor and the Director of the National Vetting Center for CBP. Source: In addition to badmouthing President Trump in 2023, a quick review of Hawkins’s social media reveals he has contempt and disdain for the Trump admin and often takes to his LinkedIn page to like the posts of Obama and Biden holdovers who have recently been fired by the Trump admin for pushing woke, pro-DEI and pro-open border policies. A review of his LinkedIn shows he likes posts from disgruntled State Department and USAID employees who were fired under the new Trump admin. Shockingly, he even recently liked a post that was critical of ICE raids. The post Hawkins liked said, “ICE has turned its back on the principles of policing in a free society.” The post was published X weeks ago, while ICE was carrying out raids in Los Angeles. Why is a man who helped the Biden admin implement their Open borders policies and who thinks ICE has “turned its back on the principles of policing in a free society” still working at Customs and Border Patrol as a senior national security advisor and the Director of the National Vetting Center at CBP? @DHSgov How can you advise @CBP is you hate ICE? 🤔 Seems like Hawkins’s worldview conflicts with President Trump’s vision for immigration policy and foreign policy. And just think. This is who is advising the CBP on their technological vetting system. Here’s a few of the pro-Democrat posts he has liked on his LinkedIn. You can see he has liked posts that praised Alejandro Mayorkas, and he liked posts that criticized the Trump admin for closing down bloated agencies. Is this someone you want overseeing technological vetting systems for CBP and someone you want serving as a Senior National Security Advisor to CBP? Monte Hawkins should not be in charge of vetting everyone who enters the United States, and he should NOT be in charge of building the physcial and IT systems that oversee immigration vetting at @CBP. Cc: @Sec_Noem @RealTomHoman @TriciaOhio @SergioGor Receipts: 👇🏻  XXXXXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [national security](/topic/national-security) [laura loomer](/topic/laura-loomer) [$hwkn](/topic/$hwkn) [Post Link](https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1944558953221747079)
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Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer on x 1.7M followers
Created: 2025-07-14 00:45:57 UTC
🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨
Customs Border Patrol (CBP) Senior National Security Advisor Who Oversees America's Crumbling Immigration Digital Vetting Infrastructure Has Anti-Trump, pro-Open Borders, and Pro-DEI Bias
Monte Hawkins @montehawkins, a senior national security advisor and the Director of the National Vetting Center at CBP, has held influential roles across multiple U.S. administrations, including as a Senior Director for Transborder Security at the National Security Council (NSC) and the first Director of the National Vetting Center (NVC) under U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Tasked with overseeing the vetting of individuals entering the United States and developing the physical and IT infrastructure to support these processes, Hawkins’ tenure has been marked by significant challenges.
From 2018 to at least 2022, he led the NVC, established under the National Security Presidential Memorandum to streamline vetting processes for border security and immigration.
Despite his credentials, the systems under Hawkins’ oversight have faced persistent challenges, raising concerns about their effectiveness and reliability. Additionally, a 2023 statement attributed to Hawkins in Vanity Fair, describing a potential second Trump administration as a “revenge machine” targeting career officials highlights how Hawkins has an anti-Trump bias and doesn’t support the purging of Biden holdovers in the Trump administration. This is concerning given the fact that Hawkins supported Joe Biden, Biden supported Open Borders and Hawkins is now working as a Senior Advisor and the Director of the National Vetting Center for CBP.
Source:
In addition to badmouthing President Trump in 2023, a quick review of Hawkins’s social media reveals he has contempt and disdain for the Trump admin and often takes to his LinkedIn page to like the posts of Obama and Biden holdovers who have recently been fired by the Trump admin for pushing woke, pro-DEI and pro-open border policies.
A review of his LinkedIn shows he likes posts from disgruntled State Department and USAID employees who were fired under the new Trump admin.
Shockingly, he even recently liked a post that was critical of ICE raids. The post Hawkins liked said, “ICE has turned its back on the principles of policing in a free society.”
The post was published X weeks ago, while ICE was carrying out raids in Los Angeles.
Why is a man who helped the Biden admin implement their Open borders policies and who thinks ICE has “turned its back on the principles of policing in a free society” still working at Customs and Border Patrol as a senior national security advisor and the Director of the National Vetting Center at CBP? @DHSgov
How can you advise @CBP is you hate ICE? 🤔
Seems like Hawkins’s worldview conflicts with President Trump’s vision for immigration policy and foreign policy.
And just think. This is who is advising the CBP on their technological vetting system.
Here’s a few of the pro-Democrat posts he has liked on his LinkedIn.
You can see he has liked posts that praised Alejandro Mayorkas, and he liked posts that criticized the Trump admin for closing down bloated agencies.
Is this someone you want overseeing technological vetting systems for CBP and someone you want serving as a Senior National Security Advisor to CBP?
Monte Hawkins should not be in charge of vetting everyone who enters the United States, and he should NOT be in charge of building the physcial and IT systems that oversee immigration vetting at @CBP.
Cc: @Sec_Noem @RealTomHoman @TriciaOhio @SergioGor
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