Border Patrol agents are becoming exceedingly “downtrodden” as illegal immigration increases and resources remain scant, a spokesman for the agency’s union said.
A Border Patrol agent assigned to the McAllen Station died earlier this week, CBP announced Wednesday.
Border Patrol Chief Paul Ortiz said his agency won’t be deterred by a spate of attacks targeting agents at the border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have seized thousands of counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards in the past few months, and the cards are draining resources that could be spent on intercepting drugs, CBP said.
Douglas L. Hatcher was just three months from retiring from the U.S. Border Patrol when he died in an off-duty recreational vehicle crash in Texas earlier this week.
The FBI is investigating after Border Patrol agents appear to have come under fire early Monday for the second time in four days along the Juárez-El Paso border.
Two members of Congress are calling on the Homeland Security director to address alarming allegations in a Michigan ACLU report that accused Border Patrol of “blatant racial profiling.”
About a third of Border Patrol agents will wear body cameras by the end of the year
