Border Patrol Agents working w/GOP to undermine Biden

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Funny how this became a right wing talking point..

They know it's an issue because they're creating the issue. Then they press Jen Psaki to explain what's going on. Only to turn around and whine about it on their talk shows..

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

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


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. ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/border-patrol-biden-crisis-dhs-kevin-mccarthy-republicans-insiders-b1818116.html

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[2naSalit]

1. Not surprised.

[underpants]

3. Me either. Trump gave the u ion some special control as he left. Can't remember what it was.

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/3/18167401/shutdown-border-wall-trump-patrol-agents

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. We need to clean house on ICE and the Border LEO's.

There lies the American Fascism.

[2naSalit]

4. Amen!!!

I have a relative in that agency and I have lived on the border many times. That whole bunch is a cabal of antiAmericanism.

[The Magistrate]

5. Fire Them, Sir

Every last one who has disobeyed orders or gone against stated policy.

Let them sue or whimper in arbitration, and if they get reinstated, fire them again.

The presumption must be, based on the agency's recent performance, that every member is a wretched sadist who ought to be doing five to ten on general principles.

[babylonsister]

9. Amen! Totally logical.

And great to see you, The Magistrate.

[druidity33]

10. So this 'General Principals', is that a Federal offense?

I would assume you mean 5-10 years, not months.

[Baked Potato]

6. McCarthy is ginning up some old fashioned terrorist fears.

They would love some terror “event” they could blame on Biden’s “border crises.”

A desperate Republican Party is a danger to the USA and the world.

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7. Brandon Judd

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[Thomas Hurt]

8. The christofascists' brownshirts left to stir up sh*t.

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11. Meet the Press pushes GOP talking points.

Shocking I Know

Meet The Press: Good Sunday Morning — It's fair to call the deteriorating situation at the US-Mexican border a crisis — even if the Biden administration refuses to use that word. But it's more than that: It's a political crisis for the new president, with no easy way out.

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12. Cancun Cruz

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215270961

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[onetexan]

13. They look like fools

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14. GOP Cosplay

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The cognitive dissonance of a bunch of portly, middle aged and senior white guys cosplaying as positively JACKED action heroes to make a crossing they also complain that women and unaccompanied children are making (without machine guns!) is... something...

The lesson these Republican senators learned from trumpism is performative assholism

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