A very long New York Times article published on Sunday explores the state of the Border Patrol, which the paper describes as being in a “morale crisis.”
“The Border Patrol, whose agents have gone from having one of the most obscure jobs in law enforcement to one of the most hated,” read the report, “is suffering a crisis in both mission and morale.”
Wow, that sounds awful. What could possibly be the problem? I bet the Times is eager to get to the bottom of it.
“Some agents blamed migrant parents for bringing their children into the mess,” the Times explained. “Their anger began building under President Barack Obama.” That’s as close as the four authors of the story get to answering who is responsible for the depressing cloud cast over an entire government law enforcement agency. You have to read nearly 40 paragraphs in before you get to the obvious truth. It comes in the form of a quote by an anonymous agent who’s been with Border Patrol for 10 years.
“I have personally not come across any agents that do not like [President] Trump’s positions on border security, on immigration. Hispanic, Latino, black, white — it doesn’t matter the origin of the agents, they all have a strong border-security mentality,” the agent said. “So they love what Trump brings to the table. What they hate, what is detrimental, is the complete opposite feeling from the Democratic side.”
The Times offered no additional context to that sentiment. The fact that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falsely accused border agents of forcing detained migrants to drink out of toilets goes unmentioned. The fact that House Democrats have refused to do a single thing to stop the hundreds of thousands of Central Americans from throwing themselves, sick and poor, into the care of border agents is ignored. The fact that Democrats have directly compared border enforcement to Nazi Germany is just shrugged off.
None of that was included in the Times report. The “morale crisis” is instead described as though it’s a natural occurrence with no clear remedy.
But in fact, there is a clear remedy. It’s called closing the asylum loophole. It’s called ending every dumb policy and welfare benefit that incentivizes all of the Western Hemisphere’s destitute to jump across the border with the expectation that they’ll be taken care of by the American taxpayer.
The “morale crisis” isn’t a mystery and we all know who’s to blame for it.
