Long Beach Transit has suspended a pilot program featuring digital advertisements on their buses after U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement recruitment ads ran on several of their vehicles over the weekend.

A photo of an ICE recruitment ad, which showed a federal agent and the slogan, “Defend the homeland, join ICE today,” was posted to social media on Saturday, Dec. 6, and quickly gained traction online.

Long Beach Transit, the same day, posted a statement on its Instagram apologizing and promising to revamp its advertising policies in response to the situation.

“This is not a reflection of our values,” LBT’s statement said, “and we will update our advertising policies to ensure this never happens again.”

Little information about how the ICE ad made it onto LBT’s buses, or how man

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