{"id":856786,"date":"2021-10-07T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T18:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=856786"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:14:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T18:14:17","slug":"former-border-patrol-chief-reveals-top-threat-facing-u-s-right-now-its-going-to-get-so-much-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-border-patrol-chief-reveals-top-threat-facing-u-s-right-now-its-going-to-get-so-much-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Border Patrol Chief Reveals Top Threat Facing U.S. Right Now: \u2018It\u2019s Going To Get So Much Worse\u2019"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fformer-border-patrol-chief-reveals-top-threat-facing-u-s-right-now-its-going-to-get-so-much-worse%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=856786&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Rodney-Scott-1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, who was forced out of his position by the Biden administration earlier this year, issued a stark warning during an interview that aired on Wednesday evening, saying that the greatest threat that the U.S. is facing is the current administration withholding information from the American public.<\/p>\n<p>Scott told Fox News anchor Bret Baier that the Border Patrol has made significant progress over the last couple of decades to shore up border security and that the Biden administration has effectively thrown all of that progress out of the window and completely opened the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was getting significantly better than ever before and it allowed us to make calculated risk decisions on behalf of Americans,\u201d Scott said. \u201cWe knew who the organizations were bringing them, and we had a higher confidence level of what type of a risk would they be if they crossed in this area where they\u2019re trying to evade arrest, higher probability that they\u2019re actually criminal aliens or their narcotics smugglers. We were investing in technology systems that use artificial intelligence to help us with that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll that has been shut down,\u201d Scott continued. And all effort has been refocused on expediting the processing speed of the massive amounts of illegal aliens that are coming into the country today. That should matter because if I can\u2019t tell you who crosses through a Nogales, or a McAllen or a San Diego, they are going to end up in your community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Baier if the border was \u201cfairly open,\u201d Scott responded, \u201cNo, the border is wide open right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe border is wide open right now,\u201d Scott said. \u201cBorder Patrol is well beyond what I would call task saturation. They are so overwhelmed. There are huge sections a U.S. border and you pick the state, we know we have thousands of people waiting to come across and where we know we have like, like high-level cartel violence going on on a daily basis between the government of Mexico and the cartels and they\u2019re bringing narcotics in, there are hundreds of miles of border, there\u2019s not a single border patrol agent right now. Why? Because they\u2019re in a soft-sided facility that we set up at another $5 or $6 million a month, to babysit, to process, and to expedite the processing of these people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve fought for it my whole career. You can be pro- border security, pro-law order, and pro-immigration, it just has to be legal, you can\u2019t have unabated illegal entry into this country, and have any real belief that you have border security. And if you have no border security, you have no homeland security, no national security,\u201d Scott continued. \u201cThe \u2018remain in Mexico\u2019 program, what that did is it ensured due process so that anybody could get a chance to basically claim asylum. But it took away the prize before the judge made the decision. So it really weeded out the fraud. What people miss in that is by weeding out those thousands and thousands of fraud cases, people that actually literally, legitimately, need asylum can get it quicker and easier, because it\u2019s the same number of people processing in all these cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked later during the interview what his biggest fear was when looking at the border, Scott responded that it was more than just the border, it was the fact that the administration is \u201chiding information from the American public so they can\u2019t even make a good decision, they can\u2019t make an educated decision because they don\u2019t have the information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust society in general, that how it\u2019s harder and harder to, even people listening to me right now, you don\u2019t have to believe anything I say,\u201d Scott continued. \u201cAnybody that thinks that an uneducated smuggler bringing cocaine and marijuana across the border that successfully gets past Border Patrol agents is the only threat, is kind of na\u00efve. There\u2019s a lot of other threats. And again, we\u2019d have to sit in a different, different venue for that. But I spent five years after 9\/11 working on anti-terrorism issues specifically for Border Patrol and CBP and bringing us into that arena to see what the other threats are that are out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott later added that the situation at the border, based on intelligence that he\u2019s seen, is going to get significantly worse in the near future, saying, \u201cit\u2019s going to get so much worse if we don\u2019t fix this.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id>\n<p><em>BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR:&nbsp;So after all your years, I mean, how would you describe the importance of border security?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RODNEY SCOTT, FORMER BORDER PATROL CHIEF: It\u2019s just like your home. If you do not know who\u2019s coming into your home, you have no security. If we can\u2019t control and know who\u2019s coming into this country, we don\u2019t have any homeland security. And the most frustrating part was that for my career, for the vast majority of my career, we were making significant progress. We\u2019re making smart investments, we\u2019re getting better and better control of the border, our confidence level, and being able to say we knew who and what crossed, it was not 100%. But it was getting significantly better than ever before. And it allowed us to make calculated risk decisions on behalf of Americans. We knew who the organizations were bringing them, and we had a higher confidence level of what type of a risk would they be if they crossed in this area where they\u2019re trying to evade arrest, higher probability that they\u2019re actually criminal aliens or their narcotics smugglers. We were investing in technology systems that use artificial intelligence to help us with that as well. All that has been shut down. And all effort has been refocused on expediting the processing speed of the massive amounts of illegal aliens that are coming into the country today. That should matter because if I can\u2019t tell you who crosses through an Nogales, or a McAllen or a San Diego, they are going to end up in your community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BAIER: So in that case, it is fairly open?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SCOTT: No, the border is wide open right now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BAIER: Wide open?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SCOTT: The border is wide open right now. Border Patrol is well beyond what I would call task saturation. They are so overwhelmed. There are huge sections a U.S. border and you pick the state, we know we have thousands of people waiting to come across and where we know we have like, like high-level cartel violence going on on a daily basis between the government of Mexico and the cartels and they\u2019re bringing narcotics in, there are hundreds of miles of border, there\u2019s not a single border patrol agent right now. Why? Because they\u2019re in a soft sided facility that we set up at another $5 or $6 million a month, to babysit, to process, and to expedite the processing of these people. I\u2019ve fought for it my whole career. You can be pro- border security, pro-law order, and pro-immigration, it just has to be legal, you can\u2019t have unabated illegal entry into this country, and have any real belief that you have border security. And if you have no border security, you have no homeland security, no national security. The remain in Mexico program, what that did is it ensured due process, so that anybody could get a chance to basically claim asylum. But it took away the prize before the judge made the decision. So it really weeded out the fraud. What people miss in that is by weeding out those thousands and thousands of fraud cases, people that actually literally, legitimately, need asylum can get it quicker and easier, because it\u2019s the same number of people processing in all these cases.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BAIER: So again, why change that? Wasn\u2019t that something that was working?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SCOTT: I can\u2019t get into the why and speculate, but I can tell you that it was working, it dramatically changed the border dynamics for us. And it eliminated the asylum fraud. As soon as people knew they weren\u2019t going to get released into the U.S. and have six to seven years to hide before their their court date, they stopped applying because the case wasn\u2019t valid to begin with.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BAIER: And you feel it\u2019s important to speak out now?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SCOTT: I think it\u2019s very important to speak out now. There\u2019s, there\u2019s a lot of people within DHS that want to tell the story within Border Patrol, within ICE, within ERO, but they\u2019re within the confines of the structure. And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a surprise to anybody that on January 20, basically, a gag order came down where none of those officials are allowed to say anything to anybody, unless it\u2019s all pre approved. So that\u2019s why I push for the congressional hearings. That\u2019s why I didn\u2019t come out day one say anything, because I think that\u2019s the proper way to do it. If they\u2019re called before Congress, they just tell the truth, under under oath, as opposed to right now, they just can\u2019t. Whatever you think about border security, you need factual information, which means the whole story. How many really are being released into the U.S.? How many really are being tested for COVID? Out of that, how many are really positive? There\u2019s information that DHS has that they\u2019re making the decision to not share with the public, that historically we would shared.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BAIER: Were you surprised at some of the decisions when you heard them as you were still border chief? As they were coming down, were you surprised that these are the things that they were choosing to do or not do?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SCOTT: And I wouldn\u2019t say surprised, but I will tell you I kind of had a false hope. Because I\u2019ve heard that before. You\u2019ve seen transitions of administration\u2019s before and you say one thing and then when they get all the facts, and they really look at things, you\u2019ll hesitate and, and you\u2019ll reconsider. There\u2019s no dialogue. There\u2019s no like team, there\u2019s no, the government officials just aren\u2019t being listened to. Proven systems, proven programs are being ignored. And I avoid the why. I\u2019ll just tell you that\u2019s what\u2019s happening.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BAIER: If you had carte blanche, if you had the magic wand, and you could do what you wanted on the border to solve the problem or try to, how would you do it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SCOTT: I would re implement the strategy that the United States Border Patrol had been working on and perfecting for 25, almost 30 years. And that is just a smart mix, and Customs and Border Protection at the ports of entry, we do that in lockstep by the way because you\u2019ll hear people say no, that threats only at the port. That\u2019s not true. It goes back and forth. So we have to work together in lockstep. But we have been systematically improving border security for years through a smart deployment of personnel, technology, and infrastructure. What would I do? Is that. Simply continue to build out the border wall, that those requirements were developed by seasoned Border Patrol agents, based on where that infrastructure could make the biggest difference, and the return on investment long term. I would continue to invest in the people but there\u2019s got to be a consequence for illegal entry. You cannot let people just come up, wave a flag, and then release them into the U.S. to get their case heard five, six years later, they\u2019ve already got the prize. They\u2019re already here. There\u2019s no reason for that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BAIER: So you\u2019re saying that that while it was a Trump administration policy, is not, people shouldn\u2019t be anti-political, anti-Trump, it\u2019s policy that the Border Patrol came up with over years?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SCOTT: DHS personnel. So this is how it worked up until January 20th, and I was actually very proud to be part of this. I didn\u2019t create it. But I was proud to be part of it. People got brought in a room from ICE, from CIS, from the Department of Justice, from U.S. Border Patrol. And they were told, hey, what can we do with with what we have? We\u2019re still going to work with Congress and try to get some of these laws fixed. But in the meantime, what can we work with? What can we do to secure the border so that we can go out and tell America we know what, who and what, is crossing that border to the best ability we possibly can.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BAIER: So what\u2019s your biggest fear when you look at the border?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SCOTT: Beyond the border now, what I\u2019m seeing kind of, at the national level, is hiding information from the American public so they can\u2019t even make a good decision, they can\u2019t make an educated decision because they don\u2019t have the information, that worries me. Just society in general, that how it\u2019s harder and harder to, even people listening to me right now, you don\u2019t have to believe anything I say. Anybody that thinks that an uneducated smuggler bringing cocaine and marijuana across the border that successfully gets past Border Patrol agents is the only threat, is kind of na\u00efve. There\u2019s a lot of other threats. And again, we\u2019d have to sit in a different, different venue for that. But I spent five years after 9\/11 working on anti-terrorism issues specifically for Border Patrol and CBP and bringing us into that arena to see what the other threats are that are out there. And they\u2019re real, but we\u2019re getting better every day to shut all that off and to put people\u2019s lives at risk in Kansas or Chicago or everywhere else\u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BAIER: Because people on the border they feel it, whether they\u2019re Democrats or Republicans, they are passionate about this issue. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SCOTT: Correct. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BAIER: But you\u2019re saying it should affect every state?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SCOTT: And yeah, people watching this right now. I think so many of them look at it and see that\u2019s a border problem. They\u2019re not staying there, and those 400,000 people that avoided arrest, they clearly didn\u2019t stay at the border, they might be living down the street from you. Who are they? What\u2019s the threat? I just can\u2019t tell you that because we didn\u2019t interact with them. But I can tell you, we\u2019ve, the Border Patrol arrested over 10,000 criminal aliens last year out of the people that they came in contact with. The other thing that gets missed sometimes, that means they\u2019ve been in the U.S. before and committed a crime. There\u2019s no global database that says what crimes these people committed in Syria or Nicaragua or Honduras at all. Those 10,000 or only people that have been here before and committed a crime. So what else, just statistically, if you build that out, there\u2019s some real threats to this country that are getting bias right now, that literally all it takes is to re-implement some of the programs we had in place that got rid of the fraud, that slowed down the flow, you\u2019re always gonna have some people trying to sneak in illegally, that\u2019s why we have the Border Patrol. But they can make decisions of where they deploy much more smarter when you\u2019re dealing with manageable numbers then the chaos that we have today, which from the intel I\u2019ve seen and heard about, is nothing like what\u2019s going to come tomorrow, it\u2019s going to get so much worse if we don\u2019t fix this.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, who was forced out of his position by the Biden administration earlier this year, issued a stark warning during an interview that aired on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856786","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\/856786","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856786\/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=856786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}