The National Border Patrol Council, which represents about 18,000 agents and support personnel, said President Joe Biden has confirmed the council will supported his presidential bid.
During the debate, Biden was asked why voters should trust him to solve the border crisis.
“There was no confusion like this under the previous administration.”
“We worked hard to get a bipartisan agreement that not only made a difference, but made sure we would never have a situation where refugees couldn’t come across the border with the current number of Border Patrol agents. We significantly increased the number of asylum officers,” Biden replied.
“By the way, the Border Patrol supported me. They supported my position,” he argued.
While the discussion is still ongoing, the NBPC X In response to Biden’s remarks, they said, “To be clear, we have never supported Mr. Biden and will not support him in the future.”
When Biden said during the debate that the Border Patrol supported him, he may have been referring to the unions’ reluctant support for a bill introduced in the Senate in February, which they called “not perfect” but “much better” than nothing.
“Biden claimed this morning that Republican lawmakers blocked the hiring of thousands of Border Patrol agents. In fact, Republicans are funding more agents in recent spending bills despite Biden, not because of him,” the union wrote in an earlier post.
Border Patrol union urges Trump:luckThe group said it hoped Trump would have “enough time at the debate to point out all the ways in which Biden’s border policy has failed.”
The union has openly criticized Biden’s open border policies that have led to more than 2.8 million illegal immigrants entering the United States.
In June statementThe group noted that the number of undocumented immigrants allowed into the U.S. under Biden is “larger than the population of Chicago, America’s third-largest city.” The union blasted the president for previously claiming he cannot use executive power to “correct abuses of the asylum system.”
“With less than six months until the election, the President suddenly claims he has the authority to act,” the statement said. “The President’s new rules do not cap the number of people allowed through ports of entry on the southwest border.”
“At the very least, his order will allow approximately 1.5 million people, the population of San Antonio, to enter the country each year. We do not call this a solution!” the union stressed.
The Biden administration claims that apprehensions at the southern border have fallen by 40% since the president signed the executive order, but NBPC Vice Chairman Art Del Cueto said: Fox Business The White House does not count fugitives.
“You can reduce the number of arrests or the number of alleged encounters, but you can’t take into account the escapees,” Del Cueto explained. “You can play around with the numbers, but that’s part of the problem.”
Additionally, the number of illegal immigrants being allowed into the U.S. through the Biden administration’s CBP One application is not being counted as border encounters.
“That’s a different story,” Del Cueto told Fox Business. “What we have to remember is that this chaos was not there under the previous administration. This chaos happened on day one of this administration.”
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