Bienvenidos to the badged foxes guarding the chicken coop
Why do we have to be bean-counters?
Therein lies part of the problem.
As long as they are Americans, and will do the job, I dont care.
“But there are some concerns about thousands of new agents enforcing laws in the same communities where they have strong family ties, some that extend across the border.”
Gee, ya think???
Fox, meet hen house.
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Sadly these agents can be as pure as the driven snow and have the greatest love of America but all it would take is the drug cartel grabbing Cousin Pedro off the streets and telling the agent what he or she must do to see Pedro alive again. They are vulnerable to this sort of pressure no matter how virtuous they are. And their families members on both sides of the border are also vulnerable to be snatched or threatened. If you want affirnative action, assign them to the Canadian border and assign northerners to police the Mexican border.
Brilliant!
Republican goal: Shore up the border by hiring more border patrol agents.
Bush accomplishment: Hand over the jobs to people who have a vested interest in not patrolling the border.
Some of the best Agents in the Patrol are of Mexican descent. Unfortunately they, like their Anglo counterparts don’t curry much favor with the politically correct establishment.
I still remember how surprised I was to hear a "darker than Obama" Tejana friend rant about "those D@** Mexicans", even though her grandparent were Mexicans."
Of course my mother's family wasn't too happy with Kaiser Bill and the Austrian Corporal either, despite her great grandparents coming from near Heidelberg. (Also some of her great Aunts and Uncles too, but not her grandfather, who born in the US)
We all know how corrupt the police and the government are down there. Some of these guys could be assisting gangs and drug dealers.
I hope that they are assigned out oif their natural turf and well screened