Border Patrol Agent Confesses to Frontlines: ‘My Hands Are Completely Tied’
An active border patrol agent who spoke anonymously with TPUSA’s Frontlines reporter Kalen D’Almeida admitted that not only were his hands “completely tied,” but that the agency has very little “situational awareness” over the border crisis.
Over the past three years, millions of illegal immigrants have traveled across the U.S. southern border, purposefully allowing themselves to be apprehended by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents to receive a notice to appear (NTA) in immigration court for several months or even years in the future. These individuals are quickly captured, processed, and released into the U.S., and many are even given free airline or bus tickets to travel to the location of their choice.
Earlier this year, a leaked memo exposed the federal government’s plan to end familial DNA testing at the southern border, a policy which was implemented to deter child trafficking. This policy identified hundreds of false familial claims, saving hundreds of children from a devastating fate in the process.
The CBP agent who spoke with Frontlines, who asked to maintain his anonymity, expressed that many agents have become “desensitized” to seeing young children with adults who appear to not have any familial relation.
“I’m supposed to be their last hope,” he said, “[But] my hands are completely tied.”
Also alarming are the Mexican cartels which facilitate massive human and drug smuggling operations, and the atrocities that accompany them, just across the U.S. border in Mexico. Several agents have sounded the alarm regarding a trafficking scheme dubbed “child recycling,” in which cartels would “rent” children to asylum seekers crossing the border. Many have also warned authorities about the narcotics being smuggled into the U.S. by cartels in mass, causing havoc in American cities.
“As an agency, we don’t have situational awareness of the border,” the agent told D’Almedia.
“The Mexican [cartels] dictate who, what, when, anything moves across their land, in their area,” he added. “So from there, it’s just like any business they realize ‘were going to be able to capitalize on their commodity.’ That commodity could be narcotics, that commodity could unfortunately be humans, in the forms of labor or sex [trafficking]. It could be any commodity whatsoever.”
The agent explained that in some cases if the individual passing through cartel territory is unable to pay, they are detained as indentured servants until their “debt” to the cartel is repaid.
“Our numbers [illegal border crossers] are exponentially increasing. It really started to climb when the Department of Homeland Security released a document, and that document talked about Hondurans and other nationalities that were going to be able to be ‘reunited’ [with relatives] into the United States,” the border agent told Frontlines. Well, the Mexican cartels took that document and told everyone in their control and custody, that Americans were going to release everyone in mass. So literally within one day, we started seeing our numbers just skyrocket.”
The document he referred to detailed the DHS family reunification parole process (FRP) for Hondurans. “Under this process, certain Honduran principal beneficiaries of an approved Form I–130, Petition for Alien Relative, and their immediate family members, will be issued advance authorization to travel to the United States to seek a discretionary grant of parole into the United States for a period of up to three years, rather than remain outside the United States while awaiting availability of their immigrant visas,” the notice explains.
The agent also referenced a report published by the Center for Immigration Studies, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which found that over 200,000 people are “bypassing the southern border by flying directly from their country into the United States.”
Several state and federal authorities have raised concerns regarding a potential terrorist threat to Americans facilitated entirely by the open southern border.
Stay tuned for part two of Frontlines’ interview with an active border patrol agent who shares his personal experiences at the U.S. southern border. Part two will be available on Frontlines’ Rumble channel tomorrow at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern.
