Border Patrol office created to rescue agents in distress now mostly rescues migrants

The U.S. Border Patrol created an office in 1998 to focus on rescuing injured agents as well as migrants found dead in remote parts of the Southwest border, but 20 years later, the team mostly responds to 911 calls from illegal immigrants looking for help after crossing from Mexico into America.

About 90 percent of the people the Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit, or BORSTAR, rescues today “have crossed the border illegally,” Border Patrol Special Operations Group Deputy Chief Patrol Agent Jesse Munoz confirmed to the Washington Examiner.