Border Patrol Repeatedly Gave Agents Light Punishments, Report Finds

A Border Patrol vehicle drives along the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas on April 3, 2019.

The report, released by Democrats on the committee, comes at a time when the behavior of Border Patrol agents is under scrutiny again, this time after agents on horseback corralled Black migrants in the Texas border town of Del Rio last month.

The Department of Homeland Security said there was a departmentwide review to identify and end “intolerable prejudice,” as well as to change policies and training.“CBP will not tolerate hateful, misogynist or racist behavior, or any conduct that is unbecoming of the honor we hold as public servants,” an agency spokesperson, Luis Miranda, said Monday in a statement.

But critics have pointed to the “I’m 10-15” group as evidence of a deep-rooted culture within the Border Patrol that has led to the regular debasement of migrants. The Project on Government Oversight, an external watchdog group, recently called CBP the federal government’s “least transparent and accountable” law enforcement agency.

According to the report, of the 60 employees that the Office of Professional Responsibility determined acted with misconduct, two were fired; more than 40 were suspended without pay; 12 got letters of reprimand; and three were given other punishments, such as suspension with pay. The agency’s failure to quickly discipline employees after senior leaders became aware of the Facebook group, its lack of specific disciplinary guidelines and the inconsistent punishments it applied all weakened CBP’s ability to hold agents accountable for misconduct, the report found.

Comey, Strock, Brennan, Clapper, Rice, Shifty Shiff, and many others, collaborated to illegally spy on a duly elected President, as has now been proven after their testimony under oath,and they got promoted and are beloved by the left. And your worried about the border patrol?

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