Border Patrol agents threaten to quit if Harris elected

 Newsmax:

Tired of being undermined and attacked by the executive branch, Border Patrol agents are threatening to quit the federal agency en masse if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidential election on Nov. 5.

"I'm not doing this s*** again … four years of hell," one agent, who is not close to retirement, told the New York Post.

Another told the outlet that if Harris is elected, a lot of "guys who can retire will go." If former President Donald Trump wins, however, "they'll stay."

The National Border Patrol Council, the agency's union, endorsed the former president and current GOP presidential nominee in a post on X on Monday.

Insiders say the Border Patrol has experienced plunging morale and subsequent huge turnover in the nearly four years of the Biden-Harris administration.

More than 4,000 employees have left the agency since October 2020, according to the Washington Examiner, leaving approximately 19,000 employees to secure the nation's borders.

Bumping up recruiting bonuses from $10,000 to up to $30,000 and appealing to retired agents to return have reportedly had little impact on the staffing shortage.

Harris and Trump have both promised to address the personnel problem at Border Patrol, if elected, with the former president announcing plans on Sunday to swell the agency's ranks by 10,000 new agents.
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The Democrats' open borders policies have clearly had a negative effect on the morale of Border Patrol personnel.  I don't blame them.  The open borders policy is also unpopular with a majority of voters.  The Biden administration and the Democrats thought that allowing millions of illegals into the country would eventually give them a permanent majority of voters.  It looks like that is also not going to happen.

See also:

Trump Gets the Most Important Endorsement of the 2024 Campaign

And:

 Border Crossings Might Be Declining — But That’s Not The Whole Story

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