A senior Border Patrol agent said Monday that National Guard troops were not sent to the U.S.-Mexico border to make arrests of illegal entrants, but to take on some of the day-to-day and long-term tasks that agents have had to carry out instead of focusing on their patrolling duties.
“They have capabilities to provide for us that can make it much easier for us to secure the border — things like air support, repairing, creating infrastructure to assist us, logistical support, assisting with surveillance capabilities,” El Paso Sector Chief Patrol Agent Aaron E. Hull told reporters during a press conference in Santa Teresa, N.M., Monday. “They’re going to be providing administration support, not providing any law enforcement assistance. We provide all the law enforcement response.”
