U.S. Border Patrol agents have pivoted back to their national security mission following the White House’s immediate success in getting illegal immigration levels down to historic lows.
At the height of former President Joe Biden’s border crisis that lasted from 2021 to 2024, agents were far outnumbered by illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Agents were pulled from the border to drive vans full of immigrants back and forth to stations for processing, watch over rooms of people in holding cells, and make baby formula for unaccompanied infants, one rank-and-file agent recounted to the Washington Examiner. The border surge resulted in historically low morale.
“I was processing for over a year continuously. We had a quota,” the agent, speaking on the condition of anonymity, wrote in a text message Friday. “You have
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