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From the New York Post: Border patrol agents are threatening to leave the critical federal agency in droves if Vice President Kamala Harris wins in November — with multiple agents telling The Post that they can’t face four more years of being undermined and scapegoated.
“I’m not doing this s–t again … four years of hell,” said one agent, who is nowhere near retirement.
Another agent said: “Lots of guys who can retire will go. If Trump wins, they’ll stay.”
The report explains that the Border Patrol has suffered massive turnover and plummeting morale under the Biden-Harris administration, losing over 4,000 personnel since October 2020.
Despite enticements offered by DHS, such as offering sign-up bonuses from $10,000 to $30,000 and trying to get retired agents to re-enlist, it isn’t working. The agents are fed up with the Biden-Harris administration.
One agent told the New York Post, “Under this administration, they’ve done everything they could to make our job as inefficient as possible. They can’t outwardly tell us not to do our job, but when you’re watching criminals come in and get released it sucks.”
“We will have another exodus just because we will have a bunch of 20-year agents saying peace out,” one agent said, adding that if Harris wins the White House, he is “absolutely sure” he will leave the Border Patrol.
Sadly, morale is so bad within the Border Patrol that in 2022, the agency recorded a record 15 suicides, the Post reported.
New York Post reporter Jennie Taer, author of the report, shared the following video of an interview in December, as she also warned that Border Patrol agents were telling her the morale among agents had gone even lower.
The low morale within Border Patrol has gone even lower, which is hard to believe pic.twitter.com/ld4T4RZnVv
— Jennie Taer 🎗️ (@JennieSTaer) December 3, 2023
In February, News Nation correspondent Ali Bradley shared the following:
VP of @BPUnion Art Del Cueto says morale within Border Patrol is the lowest it has ever been during his career and agents who are eligible for retirement are not taking the extension packages being offered as they don’t feel supported under the current administration. pic.twitter.com/LBwmnqNPbx
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) February 9, 2024
The National Border Patrol Union endorsed Trump at an event in Arizona on Sunday.
BOOM! National Border Patrol Council torches Harris, ‘strongly’ endorses Trump at Arizona rally
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