Border Patrol Spokesperson To Senate – We Never Report The True Numbers, Especially If They’re Big
Rick Wells - 3/19/2015 - UFP News
Border Patrol Agent Chris Cabrera is a former paratrooper who joined the Border Patrol in 2003. He also serves as a spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council, the union that represents 16,500 Border Patrol Agents.
On Tuesday he testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee regarding the real situation at the Mexican border, which is starkly different from the fabrications presented to us by the open borders politicians currently in power.
In his written statement, presented in conjunction with his testimony, Agent Cabrera emphasized that the border assessments issued by Homeland Security leadership as well as senior management at Customs and Border Patrol depicting our borders as secure are false.
He said, “I want to be crystal clear – the border is not secure. That is not just my opinion or the position of the NBPC. Ask any line agent in the field and he or she will tell you that at best we apprehend 35-40% of the illegal immigrants attempting to cross. This number is even lower for drug smugglers, who are much more adept at eluding capture.”
He describes how the fraudulent statistical evidence used to fabricate the false government narrative is deliberately distorted through the punishment and intimidation of officers.
Cabrera offered one example, that of the number of “got aways.” He said, “If we know from footprints or video surveillance that 20 individuals crossed the border and we ultimately catch 10 of them, then we know that 10 got away.
When I first joined the Border Patrol if I saw 20 foot prints in the sand there was no argument – we were looking for 20 people. Today if I see 20 or more footprints in the sand a supervisor must come to my location and “verify” the number of footprints. I guess that after 13 years in the field I must have lost the ability to count.”
He then discloses the real reason for the number verification and other management interventions, reporting that “Agents who repeatedly report groups larger than 20 face retribution. Management will either take them out of the field and assign them to processing detainees at the station or assign them to a fixed position in low volume areas as punishment. Needless to say Agents got the message and now stay below this 20 person threshold no matter the actual size of the group.”
Cabrera related an incident where he voiced his complaints to Border Patrol Chief Fisher in 2011. Cabrera expressed his concerns that CBP appeared to be more interested in border security statistics than in actual border security, particularly as it pertains to “got aways.” The Chief’s response was “If a tree falls in the middle of the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?” Cabrera noted, “To be candid, I do not know whether the tree makes a sound. But I do know that if I see 20 footprints in the sand and we catch 5 illegal immigrants that there are 15 “got aways” whether or not our official statistics reflect that.”
He said, “I raise this issue with you because before we can start to address our problems, we have to acknowledge the extent of them. In a moment I am going to ask you to provide Agents with more resources. I know that times are tough right now and everyone is asking for more resources. I know that it is a harder sell for me when the head of my agency is telling you that we are 75 percent effective and the border is secure.”
He continued, “To give you a sense of what we are dealing with, not six months after Chief Fisher made that comment to me I was involved in a fire fight with drug cartel members. We were attempting to intercept a drug shipment and we took sustained automatic gunfire from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande River. In less than 5 minutes, my partner and I fired over 600 rounds defending ourselves. When cartel members are brazenly firing automatic weapons at federal law enforcement agents, the border is not secure ladies and gentlemen. This was in 2011 and since that time things in the Rio Grande Sector have only deteriorated.”
Cabrera offered real solutions to the problem, starting with increasing manpower by approximately 5,000 agents. He recommended allocating 1,500 of those agents to the northern border, with the remaining 3,500 being dedicated to interior enforcement.
He views the CBP as an “extremely top heavy” organization and compared the supervisory staffing to that of an average large police department. He noted that while they have a standard of approximately ten officers per supervisor; CBP has one supervisor for every four officers.
He recommends reducing supervisory ranks through attrition and returning those personnel resources to enforcement, effectively adding 1,500 agents.
He also believes that agent academy training, which was cut during the Bush administration from approximately 20 weeks to as little as 54 days, should be returned to its previous levels.
The problem that Agent Cabrera and Americans as a whole face is that those in power don’t want our Border Agents to succeed. CPB is an obstacle to their fundamental transformational goals.
Border Security and the brave Americans who perform that function first came under obvious, direct government attack during the George W. Bush administration. That point was illustrated by the imprisonment of agents Compean and Ramos for shooting a drug cartel member in the buttocks as he fled, in the conduct of their jobs. Homeland Security Chief under Bush Michael Chertoff had a fully-funded border fence approved by Congress that he successfully obstructed the construction of.
The government’s siding with organized crime against our nation’s defenders made no sense then and it makes no sense now unless one remembers that the forces which have taken over our federal government do not want our border secured. They are actively engaged in a conquest of our nation of which open borders and the associated social upheaval are critical components.They intend to brutally restore order in exchange for our freedom once we have been subjected to a sufficient amount of chaos.
There is nothing humanitarian about their program of rewarding the lawbreaking illegal aliens. We will all learn together just how inhumane our new masters can be if they are successful. Agent Cabrera and his fellow agents should get everything he says they need, and then some.
Rick Wells is a conservative writer who recognizes that our nation, our Constitution and our traditions are under a full scale assault from multiple threats. Please “Like” him on Facebook, “Follow” him on Twitter or visit www.rickwells.us
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