Border Patrol’s roughly 20,000 frontline agents will remain on the job if Congress fails to avert a government shutdown by Tuesday night, including agents who have been pulled from the border to help with security outside ICE detention buildings in Illinois and Oregon.
“The Border Patrol has deployed agents and resources to Chicago and Portland to assist ICE with their operations,” a Border Patrol official authorized to speak with media wrote in an email to the Washington Examiner. “For the potential shutdown – Yes, Border Patrol agents are essential and will continue to work at the border and in Chicago/Portland in support of ICE operations.”
Late last week, Border Patrol sent an unspecified number of its agents to Chicago and Portland due to violence outside
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