The Laredo Times did not quote him as saying anything other than they did not have the equipment to do their job.
From my post 36, The Laredo Times quoted Carlos:
Border Patrol agents don't have the responsibility of apprehending illegal immigrants, Carlos X. Carrillo, chief patrol agent for the Laredo sector, said at a town hall meeting Wednesday."The Border Patrol is not equipped to stop illegal immigrants," Carrillo said, noting that illegal narcotics are also not on the agents priority list.
"The Border Patrol mission is not to do any of those things," he emphasized.
Again, the quote is about equipment and a context quote about narcotics.
It looks to me that the reporter (who wrote such an important story that it ended up on page 16A of the Laredo paper) may have creatively paraphrased the chief, as there is no direct quote.