The Nationwide Border Patrol Council, the union representing roughly 16,000 Border Patrol brokers nationwide, endorsed former President Donald Trump for president whereas criticizing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
On Monday, the union issued a statement, saying, “On behalf of the 16,000 women and men represented by the Nationwide Border Patrol Council, we strongly assist and endorse Donald J. Trump for President of the USA.”
They did so after endorsing Trump at a Prescott, Ariz., rally on Sunday the place Trump was joined by many Border Patrol leaders.
“If we permit border czar Harris to win this election, each metropolis, each neighborhood on this nice nation goes to go to hell. The untold hundreds of thousands of individuals unvetted, who she has allowed into this nation which can be committing murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries and each different crime will proceed to place our nation in peril,” NBPC’s new president, Paul Perez, stated.
“Just one man can repair that. That’s Donald J. Trump. He has at all times stood with the women and men who shield this border, who put their lives on the road for the nation.”
The union also said border consultants need Trump to be president “in order that the border will be secured with out compromise. Solely the drug cartels and Democrats need an open border – that’s what Border Czar Harris has given them and can proceed to do sooner or later.”
The union’s leaders for the final almost 4 years have joined Trump at border occasions in Texas and Arizona. After Trump introduced he was working for reelection, the NBPC’s former president, Brandon Judd, endorsed him and joined him at marketing campaign occasions.
The NBPC has repeatedly criticized the border insurance policies of Biden and Harris, arguing they created the border disaster. The union has additionally repeatedly reality checked claims they’ve made, together with refuting that it had ever endorsed Biden for president.
Previous to dropping out of the presidential race, through the June presidential debate, Biden claimed, “the Border Patrol union endorsed me, endorsed my place.”
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In response, the union posted a press release on X, saying, “To be clear, we by no means have and by no means will endorse Biden.”
Throughout the Sept. 10 presidential debate between Harris and Trump, Harris made feedback associated to “the significance of sovereignty and territorial integrity,” which the union criticized. “She apparently solely cares about different nations’ sovereignty b/c relating to America, she and President Biden opened up the border, erasing any semblance of sovereignty,” it stated.
After Harris made claims about her border insurance policies at a marketing campaign occasion in Douglas, Ariz., the union stated, “VP Harris claimed that she performed a job in growing Border Patrol Agent additional time pay. This couldn’t be farther from the reality. As with all issues border associated she was no the place to be discovered after we wanted her.”
In response to Harris claiming that Border Patrol brokers wanted extra assets, the union said, “We’ve got apprehended over 8 million unlawful immigrants over the past 4 years and now you understand we’d like extra assist 38 days earlier than the election.
“Vice chairman Harris has ignored the border drawback she created for over three years. She goes down there for 20 minutes for a photograph op and decides to repeat a few of the issues the NPBC has stated earlier than. However once more, the place has she been the final 3 1/2 years?”
Throughout the debate and at marketing campaign rallies, Harris has repeatedly claimed she would signal a Senate border invoice into legislation, which she says allotted funding to rent 1,500 Border Patrol brokers. She and others declare Trump killed the invoice.
On Sunday, Trump vowed to instantly ask Congress for funds to rent a further 10,000 Border Patrol staff, give current brokers a ten% increase, and create a $10,000 retention and signing bonus, if elected president.
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“I’ll at all times stand with the unbelievable women and men of Border Patrol,” he stated. “They’ve an amazing scarcity as a result of they haven’t been handled proper. They wish to do their jobs. You recognize, they take into account it unhealthy remedy whenever you’re not allowed to do your jobs.”
The Senate border invoice does the opposite of what Harris and different proponents declare, based on the invoice language, together with permitting an infinite variety of unlawful overseas nationals into the nation attributable to quite a few exceptions. The invoice would codify current insurance policies created by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for which he was impeached in February, which Republicans argue is facilitating the continued disaster.
Texas officers also argued the invoice would codify mass migration and nullify state sovereignty.
U.S. Senate Democrats and Independents in the end didn’t assist it; Senate Democratic management by no means introduced it to a vote.
U.S. Senate Democrats have additionally sought to distance themselves from Biden-Harris border insurance policies as native communities grapple with elevated crime and social companies prices related to unlawful border crossers. Senate management additionally refused to think about a border invoice handed by the U.S. Home.
Regardless of Harris’ latest marketing campaign claims, whereas a U.S. senator, she sought to reduce funding and workers of federal border companies, together with looking for to eradicate U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, the company accountable for eradicating a few of the most harmful criminals.
Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
