September 9, 2023

I’ve reported on the Arizona-Mexico border for a long time, and recently published a novel about a ranching family battling a drug cartel trying to take over their ranch.  But for on-the-ground grit and realism, it’s hard to match the account of a Border Patrol agent who works the line every day. 

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Early last month, a friend began sending me emails written by an agent who risks losing his job if his identity becomes public.  But what this whistleblower sees every day is endangering the country he loves, and he has to speak out. 

Here’s part of his email for August 12:

“If a terrorist crossed the border right now there is about zero percent chance of him getting caught.   Most of the checkpoints are shut down again because there are no agents to run them, everyone is processing or ubering ‘asylum seekers’ around.  The more we turn loose, the more show up … The whole situation is mind blowing.” 

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On the subject of potential terrorists arrested at the Southwest border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s website tells us that agents didn’t arrest anyone on the feds’ terror watch list in 2019, and three in 2020.  Thus far in 2023, there have been 146 watchlist arrests. 

No one need wonder why this is so.  President Biden has opened the border.  On his first day in office, he ended several Trump-era restrictions that were working.  Biden stopped construction on the border wall, leaving holes the smugglers could exploit. 

The whistleblower says, “… They are also doing drive thrus from Mexico again through the gaps.  ATVs are shuttling scouts around to their lookout spots.  We had aliens driving dirt bikes in from Mexico to smuggle.” 

Cartel scouts with two-way radios sit on mountaintops to guide so-called load vehicles around obstacles.  Law enforcement in Arizona is under cartel surveillance twenty-four hours a day.  

The whistleblower: “I haven’t seen this amount of load vehicles since I first got in BP.  Load drivers will not get prosecuted unless there is endangerment like people locked in the trunk or significant prior criminal history.  We have repeat drivers who straight up tell us, ‘I’m going to keep doing this because you can’t do anything to me.’” 

Every day on southern Arizona highways, law enforcement stops cars stuffed with illegals.  The drivers have responded to coded solicitations on WhatsApp and other social media sites offering a big payday.