How Border Patrol’s mission is shifting in the Trump age: ‘There are consequences now’

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U.S. Border Patrol agents have pivoted back to their national security mission following the White House’s immediate success in getting illegal immigration levels down to historic lows.

At the height of former President Joe Biden’s border crisis that lasted from 2021 to 2024, agents were far outnumbered by illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

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