Exclusive: Border Agent Gives Inside Account of Overcrowded Facilities
March 23, 2021
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Morale among Border Patrol agents has plummeted "The attrition rate right now is ridiculous," "We don't want to work for the Border Patrol anymore. It's not the Border Patrol."
The family-unit holding cells smell like urine and vomit. Fights break out in the unaccompanied-minor cells. Scabies, lice, the flu, and COVID-19 run rampant. Up to 80 individuals are squeezed into each 24- by 30-foot cell, and there aren't enough mattresses for everyone. Sheets of plastic divide the rooms. "Any diseases that are in there, it's being kept in there, like a petri dish.
The smell is overwhelming," a Border Patrol agent said, describing the conditions in a facility in south Texas. The agent, Carlos (not his real name), spoke ... for fear of repercussions. One or two agents are left to control 300 to 500 people during a shift. No agent wants to report physical or sexual assaults between the aliens because they'll get blamed for "letting it happen." The number of unaccompanied minors—children under 18 who arrive without a parent—is buckling the system.
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So far this fiscal year, Border Patrol has apprehended more than 29,000 unaccompanied children crossing the border illegally. Carlos confirmed that
the majority of unaccompanied minors coming across the border already have parents or family members in the United States. "Everybody that shows up here—even if it's a 3-year-old kid with no one around—they all have an address on them. And they'll give it to you: 'Here's my address; this is where you are sending me,'" Carlos said. "And that's what we do.
This is the way we are being played." Most of the unaccompanied minors come from the Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
"We're dealing with a different culture who's not afraid to send all their kids under the age of five, knowing they're going to get raped, knowing they're going to get killed," Carlos said.
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A new directive from the Biden administration is allowing for family units to be released into the interior of the United States without a notice to appear "There's no repercussions. I'm not even going to give you a court date.
You don't even have to show up at court if you don't want to. It'd be nice, but you don't have to. He said it's now common knowledge that if you bring a child, you'll be quickly released into the United States. They're being transported all over the country
... "They'll put them in a hotel for a couple of days until their flight is ready to fly them to where they are going. "There's no end in sight.
The people that we're apprehending are warning us of the larger caravans that are on their way." The administration hasn't allowed media to access the processing facilities and ... it's even
requiring that agents in the field move illegal aliens they apprehend onto private land to process them. Carlos said the agency has stopped dropping illegal immigrants off directly at bus stations now.
Now they drop the illegal immigrants nearby or at a local NGO facility near the bus station, he said.
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