Posted on 03/12/2021 8:36:13 AM PST by Red Badger
National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd called Department of Homeland Security claims of a program to vaccinate Border Patrol agents “smoke and mirror.” The issue of front-line agents came to the forefront on Tuesday when Texas Governor Greg Abbott demanded they receive COVID-19 vaccinations “this week.”
Responding to an inquiry from Breitbart Texas, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials said a COVID vaccination program is underway for the 64,000 front-line employees. Brandon Judd, in his capacity as president of the National Border Patrol Council, called the plans “smoke and mirrors.”
“There is no higher priority than the health and safety of our workforce,” a DHS spokesperson said in an emailed response to the Breitbart inquiry. “On January 25, DHS established Operation Vaccinate Our Workforce (Operation VOW) to accelerate the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to our personnel. Currently over 64,000 frontline DHS employees, including members of the U.S. Border Patrol, have received a vaccination.”
Judd responded to DHS, saying, “Operation Vaccinate Our Workforce is smoke and mirrors. It is done through the VA and only at a select few VA Hospitals. Periodic emails are sent to BP Agents and you get placed on a long waiting list.”
DHS officials claim more than 24 percent of their front-line employees have been vaccinated. However, Border Patrol agents fall into the program’s Phase 1B category — behind “first responders with a direct nexus to healthcare.”
Judd called the program from DHS a “bureaucratic nightmare.” He said the agency’s plans to distribute the vaccine through VA facilities limit agents’ ability to obtain the protection they deserve. He said vaccines are reportedly available at VA hospitals in Harlingen and El Paso, Texas, along the border. Otherwise, agents must travel inland to facilities in San Antonio and Phoenix...
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I think they are saying the Border Patrol agents are identifying as having been vaccinated. If they identify as having been vaccinated, then they are vaccinated. That’s the liberal ‘logic’, no?
No, they (the Biden Admin) is saying that they have put in a process for them to get vaccinated, so therefore it is done. So what if it’s 200 miles away and you have to get on a long waiting list?...............................
Trump as any good salesman embellished but never lied to us to engage in narrative spin. Narrative Spin with aid of leftist media Echo Chamber is all they have because they unable to solve REAL problems. That is why focus is always on abstract issues like climate change, white supremacy, reparations, when all I care about is affordable energy and national security (Inc border), and a prosperous nation. Right now all we are getting from Usurper Admin is shaft.
Right now all we are getting from Usurper Admin is bupkis....................
There is a weird sort of leftist delusional attraction to your comment and since the left so traffics in delusions and fantasies, they could add this one to their already full cupboard of beliefs. sarcasm/ maybe
Yep, just like everyone is ELIGIBLE as of 5/1. Which doesn’t mean diddly, if you can’t actually get the vaccination.
Bupkis would mean getting nothing therefore doing no harm, while shaft implies negative direct action taken against the nation. I will stick to Shaft.
But in the BP Agents’ case, they are getting nothing, which is for them, is harm.............
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