[Marine Inspector]

So DHS management is the culprit? Are they deliberately sabotaging the border patrol? Is DHS getting their "marching orders" from the White House?

Yes, yes and yes.

All this time I thought the problem was due to an extreme manpower shortage!!!!

It's not an extreme manpower shortage. Even if you double the number of Agents, like some in Congress want, the fact that they drive to the border and park their vehicles and watch illegals cross, without the authority to stop them, is the real problem.

Ask any BP Agent what "Sitting on the X" means.

[international american]

"the fact that they drive to the border and park their vehicles and watch illegals cross, without the authority to stop them, "

Sorry to keep bugging you MI, but I am mortified! Why don't they have the authority??