Border Patrol agents are 'working to sabotage the Biden administration', according to insiders

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@RubenGallego
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Mar 15
Hi @GOPLeader
I have have the same security clearance as you do. Can you have your office arrange for a classified briefing for members to see where this info derived from?




@atrupar
McCarthy claims people on "the terrorist watch list" from "Yemen, Iran, and Turkey" are being caught coming across the southern border

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Border Patrol agents are ‘working to sabotage the Biden administration’, according to insiders

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/border-patrol-biden-crisis-dhs-kevin-mccarthy-republicans-insiders-b1818116.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1615963128



The Trump-supporting Border Patrol labor union is reportedly teaming up with Republicans to launch a PR offensive on Biden’s government. At the same time, officers have chosen to continue to treat migrants at the border like Trump is still president
Andrew Feinberg Washington DC

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks to the press during a tour for a delegation of Republican lawmakers of the US-Mexico border, in El Paso
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On Monday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused President Joe Biden and his administration of fomenting a “crisis” along the US-Mexico border. Biden’s abandonment of harsh Trump-era policies had created chaos, McCarthy said to news camera while joined by a number of his Republican colleagues. Biden had recently gotten rid of policies such as the one which required immigration officials to prevent unaccompanied children from seeking asylum and the one which allowed immigration officials to arrest and deport undocumented people who attempted to claim underage relatives in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement.

In McCarthy’s telling of events, US Border Patrol agents are catching people from such far-flung nations as Iran, Yemen, and Sri Lanka who are attempting to illegally enter the country. Another House Republican — Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member John Katko — went even further, claiming that a number of those caught by Customs and Border Protection officers are on the Department of Homeland Security’s terror watch list.

But while Republicans and right-wing media outlets are making noise about a “Biden border crisis” in hopes of inflaming the anti-immigrant base that helped Trump win the White House in 2016, insiders who’ve worked at DHS, Border Patrol, and other executive branch agencies have a different view. These insiders say that many of the allegations being made by House Republicans and some of the problems arising at the border — such as the large number of minors remaining in CBP custody longer than court-ordered and statutory limits — have all the hallmarks of a coordinated push by Border Patrol officers, including the leadership of the Border Patrol’s pro-Trump labor union, to undermine the current administration.

“This is a planned, coordinated attempt to sabotage the Biden administration,” said Jenn Budd, a former Border Patrol agent-turned-immigrant rights activist who works with the Southern Border Communities Coalition. ........................................

[stillcool]

1. got to hire people to

watch the watchers, guard the guards, clean out and clean up. It's a given that Republicans are doing the only thing they ever do.

[PortTack]

2. With the new DHS secretary a "coordinated" push against the Biden admin by pro dotard

Union head isn’t going to have a job much longer.

[2naSalit]

3. That's what I'm expecting.