• "We're Just Uber Drivers", Border Patrol Agent Says America Is Being De

    From Lucas McCain@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 16 10:55:23 2023
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    https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/were-just-uber-drivers-border-patrol-agent-says-america-is-being-destroyed-5544270

    Authored by Brad Jones, John Fredricks via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

    Two older SUVs appear to come out of nowhere, slowly at first, then
    kicking up clouds of dust as they pick up speed along the southern side
    of the U.S.–Mexico border. Two white vans tail them to a gap in the
    border wall.



    With covered faces, smugglers suspected of working for drug cartels exit
    the vehicles, which bear a mix of Californian and Mexican license
    plates. The coyotes, as they are known, glare through the slats in the 30-foot-tall border wall, while keeping an eye on their human cargo.

    Within seconds, the doors on each vehicle are flung open and around 25
    eager illegal immigrants jump out of each SUV and 50 from each van.

    “Move it! Move it! Move it!” barks one of the coyotes as he turns his
    back to the wall and waves his arms toward a narrow footpath strewn with
    shreds of clothing and stray strands of razor wire where the wall ends
    at the base of a steep hill.

    The illegal immigrants, a few with children, pick up their pace, dashing
    a few yards up an incline, around the wall, and into the United States.

    The coyotes disappear into the desert as fast and efficiently as they
    arrive.

    The chatter—mostly Spanish and some Mandarin—tapers off as U.S. Border Patrol agents, waiting on site, approach the illegal aliens along the
    wall to distribute plastic bracelets to them. The 150 new arrivals,
    mostly solemn but relieved to be out of the clutches of the cartels,
    march along the wall toward tents and makeshift shelters.

    A Border Patrol Mobile Response Unit team stands watch over the camp
    near Jacumba on the southeastern fringe of San Diego County. One of
    three illegal immigrant encampments within about a 20-mile span along
    the border, Willow camp is flanked on the west by 177 camp, south of
    Boulevard, California, and Moon camp in Imperial County on the east.


    Suspected Mexican cartel members drive SUV's containing dozens of
    illegal immigrants to an open gap in the U.S. border wall near Jacomba,
    Calif., on Dec 6, 2023. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
    Illegal Immigrant Surge
    A small sampling of illegal immigrants at the camps say they came from
    China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Mauritania, Colombia,
    and Brazil.

    Sam Schultz, whose family volunteers for a group called Border Kindness
    and are affiliated with the legal services organization Al Otro Lado,
    which means “to the other side” in Spanish, delivers food and water to
    the camps daily.

    He told The Epoch Times on Dec. 5 he was worried about running out of
    supplies with so many illegal immigrants crossing that day.

    Mr. Schultz said about 30 percent of the illegal immigrants in the
    latest wave to the Jacumba camps are from China.

    Manny Bayon, a National Border Patrol Council union spokesman in San
    Diego, told The Epoch Times the number of illegal immigrants released
    into San Diego County has doubled in the last two weeks—from 400 to 500
    per day to 800 to 1,000.

    Dec. 5 and 6 marked two of the highest days on record for illegal
    immigrants apprehended at the border in a single day, although exact
    figures were not available, he said. About 1,000 illegal immigrants
    occupied the three camps on those days alone.

    On Dec. 6, Senate Republicans blocked aid funding to Ukraine and Israel
    while asking the Biden administration to do something to halt the flow
    of illegal aliens across the southern border.

    With detention facilities over capacity and asylum cases backlogged in
    the immigration courts for the next decade, Congress should force the
    Biden administration to secure the border, Mr. Bayon said.

    “The Biden administration is not doing anything. They haven’t done
    anything in the last three years,” he said.

    The union fully supports the move to block the budget until the border
    crisis is solved, Mr. Bayon said.

    “They should even withhold funding to sanctuary cities."

    Chicago and New York—both sanctuary cities, which shield illegal
    immigrants from federal immigration authorities—are now realizing the
    surge in illegal immigration over nearly three years is a “bigger mess,” than anyone imagined, he said.

    Morale Hits ‘Rock Bottom’
    Another Border Patrol agent in Arizona, who spoke to The Epoch Times on
    the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation, said most agents
    don’t believe they have the support of the Biden administration nor Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

    Border Patrol agents feel “100 percent betrayed by Mayorkas and the
    Biden administration,” he said.

    Every patrol station is so over capacity, much of the manpower is going
    to process and transport illegal immigrants, which leaves fewer agents
    left in the field, he said.


    Illegal immigrants wait outside the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown
    Manhattan, New York City, on July 31, 2023. (Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)
    Morale among agents, he said, has hit an all-time low.

    “It’s rock bottom, by far the worst I’ve ever seen,” the Border Patrol agent said. “A lot of them are leaving. They’re leaving the patrol. They don’t even have a backup plan—no job. They’re just so sick and tired of having their hands tied. Guys are having a hard time even putting on
    their uniforms. Right now, we’re just Uber drivers. We’re just watching
    it all happen. We’re watching the destruction of our country.”

    Although crossing the border by land anywhere but U.S. ports of entry is illegal, and illegal immigrants could be arrested and deported under
    current law, the Border Patrol has been told to stand down, the source said.

    “We’ve been told we can’t stop anybody,” he said.

    Meanwhile, the “actual bad guys,” who use illegal immigrants as their
    drug “mules” to smuggle fentanyl and cocaine, are evading capture.

    “There’s no pulse check on that, because everybody is either ...
    driving, processing, or providing medical attention,” the Border Patrol
    agent said.

    “Agents signed up to defend the border and protect our country, and
    we’re just not being allowed to do it.”

    Drug and sex trafficking have become worse in America, leaving agents
    voiceless and struggling with their consciences, because they know
    they’re not doing enough to push back against the Mexican cartels, he said.

    “This is an absolute cash grab for them. The Biden administration is
    really helping facilitate it and embolden the cartels, and we have to
    just stand by, and you’re not allowed to speak about it,” he said. “We took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. We need more people
    to stand up, and the American people have a right to know what’s going on.”


    Manny Bayon, a Border Patrol agent listens to radio chatter near the
    border wall of San Diego, Calif., on May 31, 2023. (John Fredricks/The
    Epoch Times)
    From the moment President Joe Biden was sworn into office nearly three
    years ago, the message has essentially been that border is open, and now
    is the time for migrants to rush the southern border, he said.

    On day one, the Biden administration signed executive orders and issued
    memos to temporarily suspend deportations of illegal aliens, reversed
    former President Donald Trump's ban on travel from terror-prone
    countries, halted border wall construction, stopped adding people to the "Remain in Mexico" program, fortified the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and released a sweeping immigration package to Congress that included amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants.

    “We’ve never had these kinds of numbers before. You literally have
    people coming in from all over the world, and in such massive numbers
    that it’s hard to stop,” the Border Patrol agent said.

    National Security Threat
    Alarmed by the number of military-age men coming into the country from
    all over the world, amid conflicts between Israel and Hamas, as well as
    Ukraine and Russia, the United States needs to tighten border security
    and step up its vetting process, said the border agent.

    With Border Patrol arresting 172 illegal immigrants on the terrorist
    watchlist in fiscal year 2023, he is also worried about fighting-age men
    from Middle East countries entering the United States without rigorous
    vetting.
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    "Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring
    unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to
    enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and
    abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits
    bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States
    in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3)."

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