CBP deaths are the latest sign of the Biden border disaster

Border Patrol agent Raul Gonzalez died in an ATV accident chasing border-jumpers close to Mission, Texas. 
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The Biden border catastrophe continues, inflicting tragedy not solely on migrants and border cities but additionally the courageous women and men tasked with defending the border itself. 

Border Patrol agent Raul Gonzalez —38 and a father of two — simply died in an ATV accident chasing border-jumpers close to Mission, Texas. 

That is the sixth dying within the line of obligation in 2022, per company statistics. It comes on the heels of a hideous three suicides of CBP brokers in November, bringing the overall for 2022 to 14 — the best determine in a decade. 

And based on Rep. Mayra Flores (R-Texas), who’s married to a CBP agent, they really feel“deserted” by Biden. With justification: In opening our southern border, the president has overwhelmed the CBP and callously left it to cope with the results. 

Final fiscal yr noticed 2.4 million migrant encounters, breaking the earlier document, in addition to lots of of hundreds of “gotaways” (migrants noticed however not stopped by CBP). 

Chris Magnus submitted a resignation letter simply sooner or later after he mentioned he was remaining within the place.

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Add within the disastrously weak management of not too long ago resigned CBP head Chris Magnus, and the recipe for horrible morale is full. 

Keep in mind too that Title 42, a Trump-era rule that robotically turns again large swathes of incoming migrants, is about to finish Dec. 21,supercharging the tide and additional slamming CBP’s frontline personnel.  

So we should ask: What number of extra courageous women and men should die earlier than Biden will contemplate a visit to the border “necessary” sufficient so as to add to his schedule? 

Flores and a bipartisan group of legislators, primarily from border states, have put collectively laws geared toward curbing the suicide wave. Good for them. 

However the true reason behind the general disaster comes from the White Home. And the forces killing CBP brokers (and migrants, don’t neglect: a document 853 died within the fiscal yr simply ended, breaking the prior document of 546 set the yr earlier than) received’t abate till Biden, Homeland Safety head Alejandro Mayorkas and all the opposite open-border enablers face the disaster they’ve precipitated and alter course.