Border Patrol Will Deploy Elite Tactical Agents to Sanctuary Cities. Agents from a special tactical team that normally confronts smugglers on the border are being sent to sanctuary cities across the country.
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New York Times ^
| February 14, 2020 | Caitlin Dickerson and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
The Trump administration is deploying law enforcement tactical units from the southern border as part of a supercharged arrest operation in sanctuary cities across the country, an escalation in the president’s battle against localities that refuse to participate in immigration enforcement. The
specially trained officers are being sent to cities including Chicago and New York to boost the enforcement power of local ICE officers, according to two officials who are familiar with the secret operation. Additional agents are expected to be sent to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, Boston, New Orleans, Detroit and Newark, N.J. The move reflects President...
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Thousands of Customs and Border Protection Agents Risk Losing Job Over COVID Vaccine Mandate: Vaccination rate for Border Patrol agents is lower than for the agency as a whole
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Just The News ^
| 11/11/2021
About 18% percent of the Customs and Border Protection workforce as of Monday had reportedly not received a COVID-19 vaccine, putting roughly 12,000 agency employees at risk for losing their job if they do not get vaccinated or receive a religious or medical exemption by the federal government's Nov. 22 deadline. The
agency risks losing the thousands of employees amid a record number of immigrants coming to the U.S.-Mexico border The estimations are based on internal documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The Office of Personnel Management says federal agencies could as of Tuesday impose disciplinary action, such as...
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Leaked video shows tense exchange between Border Patrol chief and agents......(Agents upset can't do their job under Biden)
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Washington Examiner ^
| 1/29/2022 | Misty Severi
Tensions rose again Friday between Border Patrol leadership and agents over President Joe Biden's policies on illegal immigration and protecting the U.S.-Mexico border. The
fresh footage shows Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz in Laredo, Texas, responding to agents accusing Biden administration leaders of hampering their ability to do their jobs and keep people safe....the claims that the policies don't match the rhetoric. One appeared to complain about the release of criminals into the country. “For evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. That’s exactly what’s happening here," the person added. "Good men are doing nothing. You’re allowing...
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BORDER PATROL AGENTS FIND WOMAN AND THREE CHILDREN DEAD NEAR U.S.-MEXICO BORDER
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Newsweek ^
| 06-24-19 | CHANTAL DA SILVA
Texas Border Patrol agents made a shocking discovery on Sunday night, locating the bodies of a young woman and three children near Hidalgo County. The news was first reported by local law enforcement. In
a Twitter statement on Sunday evening, Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra said deputies were on scene by the Rio Grande River southeast of the Anzalduas Park in Las Paloma Wildlife Management area where, he said, border patrol agents had "located four deceased bodies." The bodies, Guerra said, appeared to be "two infants, a toddler and a [20-year-old] female."
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Border Patrol agents apprehend nearly 200 migrants at the border, more than half unaccompanied children
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Fox News ^
| 22 Jul 2021 | Bradford Betz
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona apprehended nearly 200 illegal immigrants near the Mexican border on Wednesday, finding that well over half were unaccompanied children. Agents
with the Tucson border sector encountered a group of 197 illegal immigrants shortly after 7 a.m. near San Miguel, just a few miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border. Three-fourths of the migrants were unaccompanied children. (CBP)
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Agents Confront Border Patrol Chief, DHS Secretary over Biden’s Border Policies
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Breitbart ^
| 01/29/22 | Randy Clark
A series of leaked audio and video conversations between rank-and-file Border Patrol agents and Department of Homeland Security leadership reveal that agents have grown tired of the Biden administration’s border policies. During
several visits across the southwest border this week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz received the brunt of pushback from frustrated agents.In a Townhall exclusive report, a leaked audio recording reveals DHS Secretary Mayorkas’ acknowledging the frustrations and telling the agents, “The job has not gotten any easier over the last few months, and it was very, very difficult throughout...
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Border Patrol Agents Say GOP’s Border Security Bill Is Weak ‘Window Dressing’
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The Washington Times ^
| January 24, 2015 | Stephen Dinan
Border Patrol Agents Say GOP’s Border Security Bill Is Weak ‘Window Dressing’ By Stephen Dinan January 24, 2015 Border Patrol agents’ labor union announced their opposition Friday to the House GOP’s new border security bill, calling it “window dressing” that doesn’t add any new agents or updated their firepower to get the
job done in sealing off the U.S.-Mexico border. The agents’ opposition could be a major problem for House GOP leaders who have scheduled a vote on their bill for Wednesday, but who are facing a revolt among some conservative lawmakers who say the bill needs to go much...
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EXCLUSIVE: Border Patrol Agents Rebuke Ted Cruz Over ‘Political Stunt’ on Border
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BREITBART.COM ^
| 11 AUGUST 2016 | BRANDON DARBY
Texas Senator Ted Cruz visited the Laredo Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border and did not contact Border Patrol agents to discuss their needs. According
to the agents, Senator Cruz has yet to contact them through his freshman term in the U.S. Senate. The Border Patrol agents reached out to Breitbart Texas and rebuked the Senator for what they say is a pattern of having tough rhetoric while taking little action. The agents say that Senator Cruz only shows up to the border to hand out teddy bears on camera or to hear the Obama Administration political appointees’ glossy version of...
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SCOTUS to rule on whether border patrol agents can be sued over killing of Mexican boy at border
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The Hill ^
| May 28, 2019
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to take up a case on whether border patrol agents can be sued in U.S. federal court over the shooting and killing of Mexican citizens on the southern border. The
case stems from the cross-border shooting of a 15-year-old boy who was playing a game that involved running over the U.S.-Mexico border. The boy's family alleges that he was shot and killed from across the border by a patrol agent while he was playing the game. His family members are seeking damages. The justices will hear the case during their next term, which starts...
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Border Patrol Union VP: Video of AOC to Border Agents and “Being Very Threatening and Very Abusive”
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The Gateway Pundit ^
| July 2, 2019 | Jim Hoft
Shortened title. Full title: Border Patrol Union VP: There’s Video of AOC Going Up to Border Agents and “Being Very Threatening and Very Abusive” – We Hope This is Released Border Patrol Union VP Hector Garza joined Neil Cavuto on Tuesday morning to discuss the situation at the Border Patrol holding facilities.
This comes after Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited the El Paso holding facility on Monday. Hector Garza told Neil Cavuto: Speaking to agents that were at that facility, they say that AOC walked in there beginning a war against our agents. And just to let you know, Neil,...
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As DHS Plans to Cut Border Patrol Agents, More Illegals Plan to Cross Border Before Trump Wall
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The New American ^
| 03 March 2016 | Warren Mass
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget for fiscal 2017 will fund 300 fewer Border Patrol agents in 2017 than it did for this fiscal year, reported KRGV.com on March 1. KRGV.com
is the website of KRGV, the local ABC affiliate television station for the Rio Grand Valley in far south Texas. The cut in funding for agents comes at a time when illegal cross-border traffic is high and, if anything, more Border Patrol agents are needed to secure our border.
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EXCLUSIVE — South Texas Border Patrol Agents Overwhelmed by Illegal Border Crossers, Says Agent
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Restart Texas ^
| 04/03/2018 | Bob Price
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector continue to be overwhelmed by the numbers of illegal border crossers, they say. The
sector continues to lead the nation in Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), Family Unit Aliens (FMUA), and total apprehensions. We are seeing huge numbers this year,” Agent Cabrera stated. “The numbers in February were much higher than the same month in the previous two years. During the first six months of this fiscal year (which began on October 1, 2017), CBP reports indicate that RGV Sector agents apprehended more than 52,000 illegal immigrants. “We have the buildings to...
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Biden To Deploy US Border Patrol Agents To “Assist” With Ukraine Border Crossings In Poland: Report
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Truth Press ^
| February 26, 2022 | Truth Press
As Joe Biden heads off to Delaware for the weekend, the Biden administration is preparing to send US Border Patrol agents to Poland in order “to assist” with processing the wave of Ukrainian citizens who are fleeing the country following Russia’s ongoing assault. Yes,
really. Despite millions of invaders pouring across the US Southern Border since he took office, including hundreds of thousands of illegals every month, Biden is depleting our already severely understaffed Border to the frontlines of Ukraine. On Thursday, the US Customs and Border Patrol office of field operations sent a memo to agents asking for volunteers...
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Border Patrol Agents Bust 8 More Bangladeshis at Texas Border
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breitbart.com ^
| 5/19/2018 | B Price
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents arrested eight more Bangladeshi nationals after they illegally crossed the border in south Laredo. The arrests occurred in an area where agents arrested more than 230 Bangladeshis this fiscal year. “They
are not trying to hide or escape,” Laredo Sector Assistant Chief Patrol Agent Gabriel Acosta told Breitbart Texas in a phone interview. “They walk right up to an agent and claim ‘credible fear.'”
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Supreme Court allows Border Patrol agents to remove razor wire installed by Texas at Mexico border
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NBC News ^
| 1/22/24 | Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON — A closely-divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to cut through or move razor wire Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border as part of an effort by the state to prevent illegal border crossings. The
court on a 5-4 vote granted an emergency request filed by the Biden administration, which had argued that Texas was preventing agents from carrying out their duties. The brief order noted that four conservative members of the nine-justice court would have rejected the government's request. They were Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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Border Patrol agents nab a dozen people on terror watchlist at southern border in August (78 total so far this fiscal year)
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Fox News via MSN ^
| 9/20/22 | Adam Shaw, Bill Melugin
Border Patrol stopped a dozen individuals whose names are on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) in August, bringing the total for the fiscal year to a number that is triple the previous five fiscal years combined – as agents deal with a historic migrant surge at the border. New
data released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) this week show that there were 12 individuals encountered by Border Patrol between ports of entry at the border whose names matched on the TSDB – which contains information about the identities of those who are known or "reasonably suspected" of being...
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The wives of border patrol agents running for Congress because they are fed up with the border crisis their husbands have had to deal with since the start of the Biden administration
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daily mail ^
The wives of border patrol agents are running for Congress after becoming fed up with what their husbands have to deal with under President Joe Biden's immigration policies. Of
the three running for Congress, Representative Mayra Flores already won a special election in June to replace a Democratic congressman who left mid-term in Texas' 34th congressional district. The other two are Cassy Garcia, who beat out six other Republicans to take on Democrat Representative Henry Cuellar and Irene Armendariz-Jackson, who quit her job as a Realtor in El Paso to challenge Democratic Representative Veronica Escobar. If Garcia and Armendariz-Jackson are...
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Border Patrol Agents Accused Of Patrolling Border
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Babylon Bee ^
| 09/22/2021 | Babylon Bee
SHARE DEL RIO, TX—Americans are outraged after whistleblowers produced credible evidence that the U.S. Border Patrol has been patrolling the U.S. border and doing so with impunity for many years. "How
have we allowed our border to be patrolled unchecked for so long?" said AOC on her TikTok channel after viewing harrowing footage of agents on horseback doing their job. "Also, who cut off the horns of those unicorns and put saddles on them? It's so inhumane! This is actual, literal fascism, people. Just like Hitler and slavery." She then donned her fancy white crying suit and wept in anguish....
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'Agents are overrun and undermanned':... Arizona congressman calls for the NATIONAL GUARD to be deployed to Mexico border as Border Patrol is swarmed by nearly 10,000 migrants per day
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Daily Mail ^
| 12/3/2023 | Alex Hammer
CBP reported more than 9,400 migrant encounters 'in a span of 24 hours' - 7,700 of whom were apprehended by Border Patrol agents In the letter, Ciscomani - a 41-year-old who was born in Mexico - called on Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to fix the 'dire situation'. ...The
situation is far past a breaking point and those on the frontlines of this crisis are in need of immediate support,' he added, citing the 3,000 encounters seen at the Tuscon Center on Thursday. More than three days later, the demand has gone unanswered, but within hours, paved the way...
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Border Patrol agents in Del Rio asked for extra resources in JUNE as migrants surged across the border: White House still won't reveal number of Haitians who have been let into the US
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The Daily Mail UK ^
| 23 September 2021 | HARRIET ALEXANDER and RACHEL SHARP FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Border Patrol agents in Del Rio, Texas were so concerned about the escalating situation at the U.S.-Mexico border that they requested additional resources three months ago - but their concerns were not acted on by superiors. Jon
Anfinsen, National Border Patrol Council local president told CNN that the union on June 1 suggested improvements to the system. Anfinsen said that they wanted agents to be sent to the border with tablets to start the intake process when a large group crosses the river, instead of having the group wait there while space is cleared in the station. 'This way, we...
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