Border Patrol Agent Gabe Pacheco, an officer of National Border Patrol Council Local 1613 in Southern California, said on Wednesday that Border Patrol agents are being directed to release illegals by “higher up” officials in Homeland Security. He said the process has “been going on for years” and called it a “backdoor amnesty.”
Pacheco said local Border Patrol officials “…do not have a say on what is going on. They are getting direction from higher up. Even above Border Patrol headquarters. We are getting direction from within DHS.” He noted that he has risked his career by speaking to the media about the border situation.
“When you have a porous border, when you have people coming across, agents are busy processing, changing diapers and doing whatever duties go along with that, you don’t have the agents on the ground out there,” said Pacheco. “If you don’t have that agent on the ground, all the infrastructure is for naught.”
Posted 7/5/14 by Andrew Lewis