{"id":1458844,"date":"2022-04-30T08:15:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T12:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1458844"},"modified":"2022-04-30T08:16:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T12:16:05","slug":"law-enforcement-border-patrol-agents-have-lost-operational-control-awareness-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/law-enforcement-border-patrol-agents-have-lost-operational-control-awareness-at-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Enforcement: Border Patrol Agents Have Lost Operational Control, Awareness at Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flaw-enforcement-border-patrol-agents-have-lost-operational-control-awareness-at-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1458844&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><em>By Bethany Blankley (The Center Square)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claims the southern border is secure and he has a plan in place for increased surges, those in law enforcement say the opposite is true. Not only have Border Patrol agents lost operational control of the border, they\u2019ve also lost operational awareness and have no idea who is coming through, current and former Border Patrol agents told The Center Square.<\/p>\n<p>In President Joe Biden\u2019s first year in office, an estimated 1 million people entered the U.S. illegally and evaded capture, Border Patrol agents estimate. Known as \u201cgotaways,\u201d they aren\u2019t included in the apprehension and enforcement data published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection every month.<\/p>\n<p>There are generally two groups of people entering the U.S. illegally, those in law enforcement told The Center Square. Those who surrender at ports of entry claiming to seek asylum or other immigration-related claims, and gotaways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/biden-asks-congress-for-33-billion-more-in-ukraine-aid-while-americans-struggle\/?utm_source=home-featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden Asks Congress For $33 Billion More In Ukraine Aid While Americans Struggle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gotaways are considered to be more dangerous, those in law enforcement \u2013\u00a0 from Border Patrol agents, to sheriffs, to local police \u2013 say. When they\u2019re captured, they often have criminal records. Sheriffs attempt to quantify the ones who\u2019ve evaded capture through a range of methods after finding stash houses and images of groups of people wearing camouflage and backpacks traveling on foot caught on cameras placed on private properties and in other areas.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, CBP \u201cofficially released known, documented numbers of illegal aliens who evaded apprehension to be roughly 380,000 people,\u201d retired Chief of U.S. Border Patrol Rodney Scott told The Center Square. \u201cLast month, we learned from a leaked Border Patrol document that there were over 300,000 known people who evaded apprehension\u201d in the first three months of this year, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of these numbers and the fact that Border Patrol agents are so overwhelmed that very few are out patrolling the border,\u201d he said, \u201cit would be absolutely naive to believe that there aren\u2019t already over one million gotaways in the U.S. when Border Patrol was able to document over 300,000 known gotaways with very few agents in the field and hundreds of miles of border left unpatrolled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott adds that while many immigrants are coming to America seeking a better life, those entering illegally through the southern border are doing so with the aid of Mexican cartels.<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cCartels are using the massive numbers of people as a weapon to overwhelm Border Patrol,\u201d Scott said, \u201cso they can intentionally bring in criminals, terrorists and narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if you feel sorry for these people, they are willingly participating in criminal activity to bring serious threats into this country and that includes terrorists criminals and narcotics,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are creating a diversion to usher in all of these criminal elements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Mayorkas published a 20-page memo detailing DHS\u2019 border security plan. It states that DHS \u201chas been executing a comprehensive and deliberate strategy to secure our borders and build a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that hasn\u2019t been the case over the past year, critics of Mayorkas\u2019 argue. In Biden\u2019s first year in office, a record number of people entered the U.S. illegally after Mayorkas introduced sweeping changes to immigration enforcement efforts, prompting multiple lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>In fiscal 2021, CBP reported 1.9 million total enforcement actions. Already in fiscal 2022, CBP has reported 1.2 million enforcement actions, excluding gotaways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/vulnerable-dems-are-panicking-over-bidens-looming-title-42-immigration-disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vulnerable Dems Are Panicking Over Biden\u2019s Looming Title 42 Immigration Disaster<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But even these numbers are \u201cvery misleading,\u201d a Border Patrol agent in Texas, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of concerns for his job, told The Center Square. \u201cOn the one hand, you can argue the border is more secure because of higher apprehensions. On the other, it\u2019s less secure because there are more apprehensions \u2013 meaning, if more family units are being apprehended you don\u2019t know how many single individuals are getting through or who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the agent said, \u201cWe don\u2019t have complete situational awareness of the border since the 2006 Secure Fence Act, which requires us to do so. We will never know who and how many came across,\u201d unless the approach to border security changes, the agent said.<\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol agents estimate the number of gotaways by identifying sign cuttings, foot traffic marks, images captured from drawbridge cameras, residents\u2019 critter cam images, or a visual of groups from camera towers, among other methods.<\/p>\n<p>They also learn about gotaways from local residents who call them \u201cabout their property broken into \u2013 which is every single day, the agent said. \u201cResidents along the border are tired of their property being broken into and or stolen. They are afraid of speaking out because of cartel retaliation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Retired Border Patrol agent Frank Lopez, Jr., who\u2019s filed to run in Texas\u2019 Congressional District 23, told The Center Square, \u201cPersonnel on the ground have now lost operational awareness let alone operational control because they\u2019re not patrolling like they used to, meaning Border Patrol has no idea who is coming through or how many are. The best we have are estimates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bethany Blankley (The Center Square) While Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claims the southern border is secure and he has a plan in place for increased surges,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}