Border Patrol, ICE Morale Surge After Trump Victory

Border Patrol Endorses Trump

National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez told Fox News that morale in the border patrol and ICE has soared due to Donald Trump’s victory over VP Kamala Harris.

Trump easily won the support of the union:

“The morale is through the roof,” National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez said in an interview. “We’ve received hundreds of calls, texts, emails, just saying how happy the agents are.””There are a lot of agents that had originally said that they would retire if President Trump did not win. And now those same agents are saying they’re going to hold back on their retirement because they want to serve under this administration again, because they know exactly how it was during this first administration, and they know this one’s going to be even better,” he said.

The Biden-Harris administration angered the border patrol when it backed claims agents whipped Haitian illegal immigrants in 2021.

Even after reports cleared the agents, the administration refused to apologize or acknowledge they were wrong.

Perez also hopes Trump’s victory will help recruitment, especially since the agents were happier under his first administration:

“We’ve always had a recruiting problem. And so right now, with President Trump coming into office, a lot of people are going to want to do this job. A lot of people have shown interest previously, but they were hesitant to apply and work for the previous administration,” he said. “So under Trump, we’re going to have a good amount of recruits to choose from.”He said that under the Trump administration, agents receive greater job satisfaction because they know that the people they catch will be removed “instead of allowing them to abuse our asylum system.”Perez said agents were enthused by a number of policies, including the potential return of Remain in Mexico, which kept migrants in Mexico as they waited for their asylum claims to be adjudicated.”Remain in Mexico, the end of catch release, obviously, that’s a big one as well. But Remain in Mexico will probably turn the magnet off. It will allow us to secure the border even better,” he said.

 

Tags: Border Crisis, DHS, Donald Trump, ICE, Immigration, National Security

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