From The San Diego Union-Tribune:
Border Patrol union welcomes Trump's wall as 'vital tool'
The National Border Patrol Council has high hopes for President-elect Trump’s border security policies.
The union’s president, Brandon Judd, has been advising the Trump transition team. The union has encouraged the building of a border wall and changing enforcement policies put in place in the past four years.
San Diego-based Shawn Moran, vice president of the union, said a wall on the border would be a “vital tool,” and it’s difficult to say exactly where along the border a wall is needed.
And it is not just the lack of a physical fence that is causing the problems:
The wall on its own would not be enough, Moran said, but it could be effective when paired with an ease in restrictions on Border Patrol agents’ actions.
He said former deputy commissioner David Aguilar made a policy that border agents could not operate at public transit hubs unless they had specific intelligence that smuggling activity or criminal activity was taking place there. Aguilar designated several such spaces for restricted enforcement, such as schools and hospitals, in a 2013 memo.
Moran said the union wants to get rid of the priority enforcement program — or the policy of focusing enforcement of immigration laws on those with criminal records or those caught crossing the border.
Fortunately, it is now former deputy commissioner Aguilar - we need to clean house from top to bottom. Get rid of those who would weaken our nation.
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