Border Patrol agents are upset with leadership at US CBP for publicizing its secret plans to send police into a part of downtown that has become overrun with a couple of thousand illegal immigrants living on the streets.
CBP, the agency over Border Patrol, announced late Monday that starting Tuesday, it would"conduct a targeted enforcement operation" in El Paso but gave no further information. Approximately 2,500 immigrants who slipped into the country undetected have set up residence on the streets outside Sacred Heart Church and turned city blocks into slums."I’m not sure why CBP did that.
"Nothing like publicly announcing that dangerous people will be arrested, while warning them ahead of time exactly where to run and hide to avoid arrest," the union tweeted late Monday."This entire operation is a sad joke - another pandering PR stunt. Serious law enforcement leaders don’t behave this way."
The only thing worse, the two said, would be if Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz did not adamantly defend agents for this action, particularly because the idea and decision to do so was made in Washington, not agents in the field merely forced to carry it out. Immigrants living on the street are mainly teenage boys and men from Venezuela. Unlike Central American families and Mexican adults who seek work in the United States, border officials are concerned that trying to move these people will be radically different than if they were dealing with other demographics.
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