{"id":2010122,"date":"2023-08-23T23:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T03:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-makes-huge-admission-about-open-floodgates-at-arizona-border\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T23:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T03:04:17","slug":"border-patrol-makes-huge-admission-about-open-floodgates-at-arizona-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-makes-huge-admission-about-open-floodgates-at-arizona-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Patrol admits to open floodgates at Arizona border."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fborder-patrol-makes-huge-admission-about-open-floodgates-at-arizona-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=2010122&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--><h2>The Crisis at the Southern\u2063 Border: A Shocking Admission<\/h2>\n<p>The crisis at the southern\u2063 border was already bad enough, \u2062but now it is just getting embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>On \u2062Tuesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/22\/border-patrol-admits-its-responsible-for-open-floodgates-in-arizona-border-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York\u2063 Post<\/a> reported that the U.S. Border Patrol\u2062 made a shocking admission\u200d about the role it has played in this summer\u2019s surge of \u2064illegal immigrants into the country.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, the Border Patrol\u200d <strong>literally opened\u200b the floodgates<\/strong> at the \u2064border \u200bin Arizona in response to \u2063forecasted heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p>As you would expect, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/prominent-nyu-doctor-sounds-alarm-illegals-bringing-deadly-drug-resistant-diseases-us-porous-border-health-emergency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegal immigrants<\/a> have \u2063used the\u2062 opportunity to stream across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-makes-huge-admission-about-open-floodgates-at-arizona-border\/\" title=\"Border Patrol admits to open floodgates at Arizona border.\">border completely unhindered<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Post, about 1,400 of them are walking through the open gates every day, making\u200d that \u2064particular border sector the busiest in the country.<\/p>\n<h3>A Temporary Measure Gone Wrong<\/h3>\n<p>The Border Patrol and \u2062its parent agency, Customs and Border\u200c Protection, initially tried to deflect \u200dblame for the fiasco, but now\u2062 they are taking responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUSBP makes the final decision on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/open-floodgates-at-southern-border-wall-allows-thousands-of-migrants-to-freely-flow-into-u-s-report\/\" title=\"Report: Southern border wall breach leads to unrestricted influx of thousands of migrants into the U.S.\">opening gates based<\/a> on operational conditions and forecasted weather,\u201d the agency \u200ctold the \u2063Post.<\/p>\n<p>CBP tried \u2062to \u200dexplain the situation, saying\u200c that\u2064 the opening of the gates was merely a temporary measure to prevent damage from flood waters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHigh water\u2064 flow combined with excessive sediment and \u2062debris\u2062 buildup can stress or comprise the design integrity \u2064of the barrier,\u201d the department said. \u201cOnce the rain or flood event is over and the \u2064debris and sediment are removed, the \u200bgates can be closed and \u200bsecured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Brandon Judd, \u2064president of the National Border \u200cPatrol Council, did not accept\u2063 that explanation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose gates should never open\u200c up. What would be \u200dthe reason for it? Why would you do it?\u201d he fumed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the cartels are constantly\u2064 surveilling \u2063what we do, the moment something gets left open, it gets exploited,\u201d he added. \u201cIn\u2063 this particular case, it exploded almost immediately, which shows you how adept the criminal cartels are at exploiting any \u200dweakness \u2064at \u2062any time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, it is hard to argue with Judd\u2019s \u2064assessment here.<\/p>\n<p>How\u200c could the Border Patrol and CBP not know that opening the gates would just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-goes-central-park-nycs-illegal-aliens-may-get-tents-to-solve-overwhelming-housing-crisis\/\" title=\"Central Park to Provide Tents for NYC's Housing Crisis\">encourage illegal immigrants<\/a>\u2063 to\u200b come across the border? \u2063How much easier can \u2062we make it for the cartels?<\/p>\n<p>If there is a flood, sure, \u200dopen the gates. But it is foolish\u2064 to leave them open for weeks on end while thousands of illegal immigrants\u2063 just walk right in.<\/p>\n<h3>A\u2064 Blame Game and a Joke of Border Security<\/h3>\n<p>Making matters worse is the massive\u2064 blame game.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks, the Border Patrol and CBP tried to pass the \u2062buck, meaning that \u2062we had no answer as to who was at fault and who was responsible for solving the issue.<\/p>\n<p>There really is not much more to be said about this. Under the Biden\u2064 administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">border security<\/a> has \u200dbecome an absolute joke.<\/p>\n<p>Those gates need to be closed immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/border-patrol-makes-huge-admission-open-floodgates-arizona-border\/\">Border Patrol Makes Huge Admission About Open Floodgates at Arizona Border<\/a> appeared first on\u200b <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western \u2064Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>admitted its direct involvement in the surge of illegal immigrants at the southern border. This revelation adds to the already dire situation, making it even more embarrassing for the United States. The New York Post reported this shocking disclosure on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2016,"featured_media":2010123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010122","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\/2016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}