Former Border Patrol leader says Biden and Harris never contacted him: ‘That’s a problem’

Published March 4, 2024 12:43pm ET



The former head of the Border Patrol revealed that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris not once reached out or spoke with him about the border crisis in his two years atop the federal agency.

Raul Ortiz, who led the federal Border Patrol organization from June 2021 to June 2023, admitted in a 60 Minutes interview that the top White House officials never contacted him to learn about the extent of or solutions to the massive border problem.

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