Officials shared that high school Hispanic and LGBTQIA students are receiving offensive messages saying they’ve been selected for deportation or re-education camps. “Although we have not received reports of violent acts stemming from these offensive messages,

The FBI issued a statement Friday saying racist and threatening text messages sent to Black communities after the presidential election are also circulating in Hispanic and LGBTQ+ communities and reaching high school students.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Friday that a spate of offensive text messages sent out in the wake of Donald Trump's presidential election win and apparently aimed at Black Americans had expanded to target Hispanic and LGBTQ people.

The original texts were sent out a day after the election to African American and Black communities, saying they were chosen to pick cotton.

The messages, described as hateful and distressing, have reached Hispanic, LGBTQIA+, and high school communities, escalating concerns about their scope and intent.

The agency said that reports have grown since last week when Black people were targeted with messages from anonymous phone numbers.

The FBI is investigating a series of racist text and email messages that were sent out to numerous people from an unknown number this week. The messages included the recipient’s name and had references to “picking cotton.