Border agent fears political payback for testifying in Congress

A top Border Patrol official said Wednesday that he worries the head of his agency will pay a price politically for testifying honestly Congress.

“I will tell you right now that you have a chief patrol agent right now who has been very open and has given you all candor, and I fear that because of that openness, because of that candor, our current acting chief patrol agent is not even going to be considered for the [job of] permanent chief patrol agent because ‘he cannot be controlled,'” Brandon Judd, the head of the National Border Patrol Council, told a House subcommittee panel on Wednesday.