Border Patrol Whistleblower Provides an Inside Look at America’s Broken Immigration System
By Townhall. For years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol have said their facilities are overwhelmed and the system is severely broken. Politicians in Washington, D.C. have debated the issue, but one thing they can’t debate is the cold hard facts. And the fact is we have people from around the world taking advantage of loopholes in our immigration system, a Border Patrol whistleblower told Townhall.
Central American caravan riders have overwhelmed the Border Patrol since last fall when they began coming to the United States en masse. Mexico established a system to help the U.S. deal with the people who were coming to America, allegedly seeking asylum. Those who wanted to seek asylum had to go through a port of entry, file the paperwork and then go back to Mexico to wait until their court date. Mexico even offered to provide humanitarian visas to those who couldn’t legally enter into the United States so they could stay in Mexico and work. But that’s not what these migrants wanted. They want a life in America. . .
And here’s where things get even more twisted. If an illegal alien comes up sick, agents are forced to take him or her to a nearby urgent care or hospital for treatment, exposing everyone in the community to the communicable disease. Border Patrol and ICE aren’t required to report said diseases to the Center for Disease Control so there’s absolutely no way for the CDC to accurately track where an outbreak began, the whistleblower explained. Not only that, but agents are getting sick themselves and they’re bringing these diseases home. They’re exposing their kids and family members to the diseases they’re being exposed to while on the job.
The whistleblower who spoke to me explained the general concern amongst agents tends to be the same: agents really aren’t on the border right now because they’re spending basically all of their time and resources processing people who ask to see immigration judges. The illegal aliens figured out our “catch and release” system so they’re coming in droves. Not having anyone along the border means we essentially have open borders. The drug cartels and terrorists are taking advantage of that fact. Agents are seeing more “exotics” – people from South Africa, Somalia, India and the Middle East – than they otherwise would have. It’s not just those from Central America, like Guatemala and Honduras. (Read more from “Border Patrol Whistleblower Provides an Inside Look at America’s Broken Immigration System” HERE)
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Border Control Creating New Position for Immigration Crisis
By The Daily Caller. The U.S. Border Patrol announced that it’s creating a new position specifically tailored to processing and caring for migrants who reach the southern border, allowing agents to refocus their work on enforcement.
The “Border Patrol Processing Coordinator” will assume certain responsibilities that have consumed the agency’s time as it deals with a surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) press release on Tuesday. The new position is meant to bring relief to agents who have long complained that the humanitarian crisis has kept them from performing their main role at the border.
Coordinators are to be tasked with feeding, cleaning, transporting and other general tasks for illegal immigrants in Border Patrol custody. Migrants in need of medical care will be transported to hospitals by coordinators, who will also be assigned to watch over migrants as they receive care.
“I am committed to providing the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol the resources they need to accomplish their border security mission,” Carla Provost, Chief of the Border Patrol, said in a prepared statement on Tuesday. “Border Patrol Processing Coordinators will take on processing, transportation, and custody responsibilities, which will free up agents for critical law enforcement operations.” (Read more from “Border Control Creating New Position for Immigration Crisis” HERE)
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