During the last four years, current CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott and the current Border Czar, Tom Homan travelled the country together giving talking after talk about how the border was wide open under Biden. This was a lie. The border and the asylum system were closed for over three years of the Biden Administration because of Trump’s Title 42 Covid policy. This is actually what caused all of the crossings in between the ports of entry that overwhelmed the Border Patrol.
Today under Trump, with the asylum system still closed, the Border Patrol claims the border is no longer open but closed and that they have let zero “illegal immigrants” into the country last month. This is also a lie. Anyone released into the US from Border Patrol or CBP custody has been vetted and is given travel documents by those agencies making their status a legal one. So, I know they cannot be talking about those released from custody right. Right?
What they actually mean is that the Border Patrol did not follow the asylum law last month and allow a single person who crossed without inspection to claim asylum and enter the country should they meet qualifications as is their right by US law.
There are always got aways. Always. This means Border Patrol has not prevented all illegal crossings. They simply cannot because of the terrain and the multitude of ways people are smuggled into the country. There is no such thing as a 100% sealed border where Border Patrol has stopped all illegal entries. The statement itself borders on the absurd.
Border Patrol has stopped releasing the “got away” counts since Trump took office again. They claim the military is guarding the border, but it takes years to learn the trails, sign cutting and how to track human beings. This video shows how their manpower is likely down because so many are out on ICE raids. As I say in the video, it is not that there are a large number crossing. Numbers are definitely down. It’s that the number of illegal crossings is not “zero.” Though honestly, nothing coming from this agency should be trusted in this moment.
This trip to my old patrol area shows that instead of the border being closed or sealed with “zero” entering the country, agents and military are apprehending many migrants but also not reporting the got aways and not manning checkpoints. This is an old tactic the agency used in the 1990s when Clinton wanted Operation Gatekeeper to look like it had decreased crossings in our area. They ordered us not to go north of the first paved road, state highway 94, and we just let them go. We did not count them as got aways because we were ordered to not count them. Then the Border Patrol claimed Gatekeeper a success. This, I believe is the same tactic they are using today. As you will see, with checkpoints closed and few tracking, apprehensions and drug seizures will be low as well and they cannot say how many got aways or missed drug seizures there are with checkpoints being closed.
The border is literally more open now than it ever was during Biden. They are just not apprehending everyone because it is not possible and because they have sent too many agents to conduct ICE raids. Personally, if I was a migrant looking to cross, I would do it now before it got hotter.
The border has been abandoned for ICE raids.
My apologies for the bad sound. I use an old car for these trips that is noisy, and I failed to bring a microphone. It is always emotional for me to go back. That is what causes some of the pauses in my speech; I am flashing back on events.
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