The Border Patrol would beef up its staff and bus out migrants ahead of dignitary visits to hide the true extent of the chaos at the southern border, leaving the false impression that they were prepared to handle a surge, according to a new inspector...
One agent told investigators that every time a visit took place, they would “make this place look fit and proper.” But after the visit, they would “go right back to overfilled pods and lack of staff and equipment to handle the situation.”
The agencies have kept their same staffing levels, even as their duties and workloads have soared, the audit found. CBP employees complained of operating with a “skeleton crew,” able to do little more than process new arrivals. Duties include restocking shelves with snacks for the migrants, delivering meals and keeping watch on migrants taken to the hospital.Morale is so bad that the agencies face a wave of retirements and resignations, leaving them in an even worse position to handle the chaos of the border, the audit concluded.
At ICE, which handles detention, deportation and arrests in the interior of the U.S., officers said the surge of people means they are no longer tracking down and arresting criminals and instead are handing out paperwork. “Deportation officers we spoke to on the Southwest border and those detailed from other ICE offices told us that morale is affected because deportation officers are spending more time processing paperwork that could have been done remotely and releasing migrants instead of enforcing immigration law,” the inspector general said.
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