Last month, the top dog at the union representing Border Patrol officers told lawmakers that many of the agents he represents are angry the Obama administration is telling them not to do their jobs. Now, the Customs and Border Protection commissioner has weighed in, saying agents who are upset should “look for another job.”
National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told lawmakers last month that the Obama administration has ordered immigration agents to release any suspected illegal immigrant who claims to have been in the country since January 2014 without further question.
“Simply put the new policy makes mandatory the release — without a [Notice to Appear] of any person arrested by the Border Patrol for being in the country illegally, as long as they don’t have a previous felony arrest and conviction and as long as they claim to been continuously in the United States since January of 2014,” he said.
Judd said the policy is so open to abuse that the president “might as well abolish our immigration laws altogether.”
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske rejected those statements in testimony before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday.
“We don’t need and don’t want — and I would not stand by if the Border Patrol was — releasing people without going through all of the formalities,” Kerlikowske said.
But NBPC officials maintain that the “formalities” in question are in no way enough to protect the nation from being overrun by illegal immigrants. Administration officials, they contend, are forging ahead with such policies in an effort to bring down Border agents’ morale.
“This is part of the administration’s strategy to demoralize and disrupt agents and completely dismantle immigration enforcement,” Shawn Moran, vice president of the NBPC, told The Washington Times. “They’re going to make the job so unbearable because they know they have a very motivated workforce, a very patriotic workforce that wants to uphold the laws, yet we have the president of the United States and the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection directly going against the rule of law.”
And Kerlikowske did little to contest that during his testimony before lawmakers. Following orders, he told lawmakers, should be agents’ top priority.
“If you really don’t want to follow the directions of your superiors, including the president of the United States and the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, then you really do need to look for another job,” he said.
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