Jenn Budd, a former senior patrol agent and intelligence agent with the Border Patrol in San Diego, called the video “grotesque” and said “I think it’s a horrible misuse of taxpayers’ money.”
A video produced by U.S. Border Patrol agents and shared across several official government social media accounts this week begins like the cold opening of a true-crime thriller. A Border Patrol vehicle sits parked in what looks like a desert in the dead of night, as the scratchy sounds of a radio being tuned are heard on the soundtrack. Inside the truck, two uniformed agents listen to a news report about an undocumented immigrant wanted for rape and murder in California.
Featuring drone footage, suspenseful music and even fake blood, the video, titled “The Gotaway,” a Border Patrol term used to describe illegal border crossers who evade apprehension, shows the agents in dramatic pursuit of a car full of migrants.
The official did not respond to questions about the veracity of the events shown in the video, which appear to be a generic depiction of Border Patrol agents’ work, rather than a dramatization of a specific operation. The questionable thing about the timing, in the view of Budd and a former DHS official who spoke to Yahoo News on condition of anonymity, is that the video depicts events that are at least a year out of date.
“They have better operational control, more infrastructure, more personnel, more support,” the former DHS official said, suggesting that the video’s spotlight on “Gotaways” is “a bit incongruent with what I would assume would be the reality on ground.”
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