Posted on 05/16/2019 11:43:43 AM PDT by detective
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was assaulted near Eagle Pass, Texas, while he arrested a Mexican illegal alien and convicted drug-dealing felon who was previously deported several times, the government announced.
The assault comes as border-jumpers and human traffickers are becoming emboldened on the nation’s increasingly lawless southern border. Democrat resistance to President Trump’s plan to erect a border wall and lawmakers’ refusal to properly fund immigration enforcement efforts have no doubt made the already-dangerous border situation worse.
Mark Morgan, then head of the U.S. Border Patrol and now President Trump’s nominee to head U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE), told a congressional committee in September 2016 that Border Patrol agents “are among the most assaulted law enforcement personnel in the country.”
“There have been 7,542 assaults against agents since 2006, and 30 agents have died in the line of duty since 2003,” Morgan said at the time.
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We need the death penalty for drug cartels, criminal gangs and human trafficking.
Libs-meh!
But I thought Demwits said there was no crisis on our border? No danger?
Sargent Hank Voight is a 'fictional character' on the TV series 'Chicago PD'...
Then let’s make the demonratcommiescumbags move their Office’s to the Southern Border. See how that works out for them.
I hope he fell down an entire flight of stairs of a 20 story building
We need the death penalty for drug cartels, criminal gangs and human trafficking.
Anyone found trafficking illegals needs to be hunted down like dogs, and left for the buzzards.
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