House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer asked Customs and Border Protections acting Commissioner Troy Miller to make the seven chief patrol agents along the southern border available for transcribed interviews.
Two chief patrol agents testified on February 7 but could only provide details from “their respective sectors and the unique challenges they confront in those sectors.”
“The uniqueness of each sector demonstrates a need for the Committee to obtain additional information regarding other sectors on the southern border,” stated Comer. “As one witness emphasized, ‘if you’ve seen one Border Patrol sector, you have only seen one Border Patrol sector.’ One of the witnesses testified that Border Patrol agents have valuable information and experience to guide lawmakers in search of legislative solutions.”
I think people forget the U.S. has seven sectors along the southern border:
1. Aaron M. HeitkeChief Patrol Agent – San Diego Sector2. Gregory K. BovinoChief Patrol Agent – El Centro Sector3. Patricia McGurk-DanielActing Chief Patrol Agent – Yuma Sector4. Peter JaquezChief Patrol Agent – El Paso Sector5. Sean L. McGoffinChief Patrol Agent – Big Bend Sector6. Jason D. OwensChief Patrol Agent – Del Rio Sector7. Carl E. LandrumChief Patrol Agent – Laredo Sector
“The uniqueness of each sector demonstrates a need for the Committee to obtain additional information regarding other sectors on the southern border,” continued Comer. “As one witness [John Modlin, Chief Patrol Agent, Tucson Sector] emphasized, ‘if you’ve seen one Border Patrol sector, you have only seen one Border Patrol sector.'”
Comer included a valuable portion from the testimony of Gloria Chavez, Chief Patrol Agent, Rio Grande Valley Sector:
I think that, as we continue to move forward, I always ask, whenever Congress is ready to put that team together, look at Border Patrol agents that come in and advise you because I think there’s many of them out there already with experience that know how to help out in building that path forward because I think it’s time. If not, otherwise, if we don’t have the right policies or consequences, the world is watching us, and we’re going to continue to see these large migration flows from around the world entering here at our southern border.
Republicans constantly criticize Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas since migrant crossings have increased since Biden took office.
But it’s not just migrants.
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