From: richie lee <ligica49>
‘Wide-Open, Uncontrolled, Unmanned’: Cartels Seek To Divert Border Patrol From Frontline by Overwhelming Agents With Migrants
The Border Patrol is now ‘relegated to really nothing more than a federal travel agency’ when agents are pulled away from national security missions to focus on administrative tasks, a former border commissioner tells the Sun.
Under the watch of the Texas National Guard, migrants wait adjacent to the border fence to enter into El Paso, Texas. AP/Andres Leighton, file
MAGGIE HRONCICHTuesday, November 28, 202315:43:00 pm
As border patrol agents are redirected from critical checkpoints to process and care for surges of illegal migrants, sections of the border are now wide open to cartels, analysts warn.
On Monday, Customs and Border Protection announced it would “temporarily suspend” vehicle crossings at Eagle Pass, Texas, and would “reduce vehicle processing” at Lukeville, Arizona, “in order to redirect personnel to assist the U.S.