{"id":2365213,"date":"2024-11-06T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-agents-ecstatic-over-trump-win-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T20:20:34","slug":"border-patrol-agents-ecstatic-over-trump-win-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-agents-ecstatic-over-trump-win-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Patrol agents ecstatic over Trump win &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">20<\/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-agents-ecstatic-over-trump-win-washington-examiner%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=2365213&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--><p>Border \u2062Patrol agents expressed\u200b joy and relief upon learning that\u2063 Donald Trump \u200cwas elected to return to the White \u200bHouse, defeating Kamala Harris. Agents voiced their hope for a more secure border and a return \u200dto enforcing immigration regulations as per their oaths. \u2062A \u200dTexas-based senior agent emphasized a restored sense of pride in their \u2064work and a commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-consider-baiting-house-with-border-clause-to-force-more-ukraine-aid-amid-shutdown\/\" title=\"GOP senators may use a border clause to push for additional Ukraine aid during the shutdown.\">addressing border security issues<\/a>. Paul Perez, president of the National \u2062Border Patrol Council, noted the anticipated end\u200c of &#8220;catch and release&#8221; policies, which led to\u2063 the release of illegal immigrants into the U.S. instead of immediate deportation.<\/p>\n<p>Agents criticized the Biden administration&#8217;s handling of border security, revealing that \u200cover 10.7 \u2064million encounters with illegal crossings \u200boccurred during its tenure. They reported that many released immigrants went on to commit violent crimes. Commenting on \u200bthe election, former Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott remarked that the results signaled a demand for\u200c better national security policies, reflecting\u200b the sentiments of agents\u200d across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Enforcement measures\u200b under a Trump administration could \u2063include utilizing military bases for deportations and stricter immigration law enforcement, as agents expect a shift in approach\u200d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-fed-up-steve-bannon-goes-off-on-speaker-johnson-after-ndaa-passes\/\" title=\"Fed up, Steve Bannon lashes out at Speaker Johnson over NDAA passage\">addressing \u200billegal immigration<\/a> and related crimes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Border Patrol agents joyful over Trump&rsquo;s return to White House: &lsquo;We have hope&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1835343\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>U.S. Border Patrol agents reacted ecstatically to news that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3210669\/donald-trump-wins-2024-election-defeating-kamala-harris\/\">President-elect<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> will return to the White House after defeating Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kamala Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;We have hope.&nbsp;We can take care of our country and our citizens.&nbsp;Do what we took an oath to do.&nbsp;Bring pride back to our agency,&rdquo; a senior Border Patrol agent in Texas wrote in a text message Wednesday morning. &ldquo;We felt like we were forced to turn our backs on our country! No more!!!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Feelings are high right now in a good way,&rdquo; said a second agent stationed in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>A third agent, a senior official stationed at the Border Patrol&rsquo;s headquarters in Washington, described being &ldquo;relieved&rdquo; at the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Personally, I&rsquo;m relieved and hopeful that we will get back to securing the border the way we have always been meant to secure the border.&nbsp;My friends\/colleagues are all feeling grateful and are ready to get to work to fix the border,&rdquo; the third agent wrote in a text message.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Perez, president of the National Border Patrol Council union, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> on Wednesday that he expects the incoming Trump-Vance administration to end the use of &ldquo;catch and release,&rdquo; or the automatic release of illegal immigrants into the country.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump&rsquo;s win means a return to a more secure border which we experienced during his first term, but also, the end of catch and release, an end to the influx of criminals from around the world, a notice to the cartels that they&rsquo;re not going to be allowed free reign of our borders and a voice to the victims of illegal alien crime,&rdquo; Perez wrote in a text message.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Biden administration, more than 10.7 million people have been encountered by federal police attempting to enter the country, more than any two-term administration, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/nationwide-encounters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the current administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2024\/06\/25\/fact-sheet-president-bidens-presidential-proclamation-and-joint-dhs-doj-interim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">returned<\/a> more illegal immigrants to Mexico and other countries, it has also released more than any other administration into the country to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">await court dates years<\/a> down the road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/139101\/in-anti-police-age-rodney-scott-wants-to-restore-public-trust-in-border-patrol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Rodney Scott<\/a>, former Border Patrol national chief, said agents nationwide were excited about the election results.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yesterday America said loud and clear &mdash; we demand better. Better national security, better economic security, and a better brighter future,&rdquo; said Scott, distinguished senior fellow for border security at the Texas Public Policy Foundation think tank in Austin. &ldquo;Like the majority of Americans, the agents that I have spoken to are excited to get America back on track toward common-sense policies that put Americans needs first.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration cracked down on the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-tacitly-admit-biden-harris-border-policy-is-a-total-failure\/\" title=\"Media Tacitly Admit Biden-Harris Border Policy Is A Total Failure\">border crossings earlier<\/a> this year, implementing elements of a border deal that failed to pass the Senate. However, a senior agent in Texas said Trump&rsquo;s victory means the Border Patrol would &ldquo;begin to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-recall-petition-close-to-success\/\" title=\"Newsom Recall Petition Close To Success\">enforce immigration laws<\/a> that are in place&rdquo; in a way that the current administration skirted.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Most of the [large Border Patrol facilities that hold immigrants in detention] have a military base\/airport near them. Instead of releasing everyone, use the military bases for mass deportations,&rdquo; the fourth agent suggested. &ldquo;It worked for the people coming from Haiti. They stopped entering when they were sent directly back to their country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A fifth Border Patrol employee, a senior agent in California, touted that the change in administration likely means the agency&rsquo;s enforcement of immigration laws will increase.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the consequences that are going to change. With Biden\/Harris, we are releasing repeat offenders and people who have been previously removed,&rdquo; said the fourth agent. &ldquo;Illegal immigration is not going to be solved in this election or the next, but it has to be controlled. People are always going to look for a better life and the American dream, but they have to do it legally.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Under the Biden-Harris administration, at least 5.3 million of the more than 7 million illegal immigrants apprehended by the Border Patrol who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally have been released into the country. The remaining 3 million were encountered at ports of entry.<\/p>\n<p>In countless instances, illegal immigrants released into the country have later been arrested as suspects in violent crimes against people in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, 37-year-old mother Rachel Morin of Maryland was sexually assaulted and killed while on a jog. The suspect, illegal immigrant Victor Martinez-Hernandez of El Salvador, was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3056948\/migrant-crime-grows-as-campaign-issue-but-is-there-an-actual-spike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested<\/a>&nbsp;this summer by police in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2963260\/wray-fbi-tracking-venezuelan-migrant-gang-following-laken-riley-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">death<\/a>&nbsp;of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley earlier this year became so politically explosive that President Joe Biden mentioned her at his State of the Union.<\/p>\n<p>Other incidents, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/04\/us\/undocumented-migrant-nypd-shooting-ice\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attacks<\/a>&nbsp;on New York police plus sexual assaults and homicides against preteen girls and single women in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/24\/us-news\/jocelyn-nungaray-murder-suspect-gets-10m-bond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3051196\/illegal-immigrant-iowa-pleads-guilty-sexually-assaulting-12-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Iowa<\/a>, have also attracted media coverage.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We look forward to making crime illegal again. The men and women who protect the nation&rsquo;s borders are excited that we now have the strongest advocate for border security on our side (again),&rdquo; said Perez. &ldquo;Protecting this nation and its citizens has never been a secondary issue for President Trump, and now we can all rest assured, our country is in the best position to succeed at home and abroad.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A sixth agent, a senior agent in Texas, was optimistic about the change in White House administrations but interested in how Trump would change day-to-day operations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Curious about what he does with the CBP 1 app. That has really directed a good portion of our traffic through the ports of entries,&rdquo; the sixth agent wrote in a text message. &ldquo;Also, curious to see what he does with the last proclamation which has helped us tremendously. 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