Border Patrol agents leaving because of Biden's bad policies

 Ed Morrissey:

A rational response, if Reuters has their finger on the pulse at Customs and Border Protection. What’s the point of sticking around, Border Patrol agents wonder, if Joe Biden’s intent on undoing all their work — and encouraging overwhelming migration to make that work even harder? They didn’t sign up to be the “US Welcome Patrol,” as one bitter joke circulating at the moment characterizes the Biden view of their agency:

Some U.S. border patrol agents are so frustrated with President Joe Biden’s more liberal border policies that they are considering early retirement, while other disgruntled colleagues are buying unofficial coins that say ‘U.S. Welcome Patrol.’

Interviews with a dozen current and former agents highlight growing dissatisfaction among some rank and file members of the agency over Biden’s swift reversal of some of former President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies. Since Biden took office, border apprehensions have risen sharply.

Some of that frustration is coalescing into opposition to Biden’s pick to lead the border patrol’s parent agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The nominee is Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus, who still needs to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

The discontent was partly reflected in an unusual memo from the acting Border Patrol chief last month, who objected to a new directive to stop using the term ‘alien’ when referring to migrants, saying it would hurt agents’ morale.

Border Patrol agents have a front-row seat at the circus Biden has created. It’s gotten so bad that the White House now wants to change the way the government reports on the situation, which the Washington Post reports as an effort to seek “new metrics”:

Nearly four months into President Biden’s term, and as his administration settles into a new normal of superlative border numbers, he and his top officials are looking to break with Trump’s measurement standards, even as immigration ranks as one of their worst-polling issues.

U.S. agents are making about 6,000 arrests and detentions along the Mexico border each day, a level of law enforcement intensity that has no recent precedent. Family groups and children needing care remain a major challenge for CBP, while growing numbers of adult migrants are trying to sneak past them and evade capture. Border state lawmakers from both parties fault the White House for doing too little.

Rather than attempting to drive down migration through more stringent enforcement, Biden officials in recent weeks have been seeking to change the perception that high border numbers equate to a crisis, a failure, or even something manifestly negative.

There is only one reason to change metrics in midstream, and it’s to spin reality. The Biden administration wants to avoid responsibility for having incentivized mass migration and creating the crisis on the border. Rather than deal with the consequences of their own rhetoric and actions by changing policy and restoring the previous disincentives, Biden and his team have busied themselves with orders to CBP to use more politically correct language and tinkered with measurements to cover up the scope of their failures.

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A large portion of the border agents are Hispanic and they are part of a growing trend rejecting Biden's bad immigration policies.  They are on the front lines and they see how destructive those policies are.  While many of the residents of the border area are also Hispanic they are clearly fed up with Biden's policies.  One of the ways you can tell is that Democrat officials along the border are also speaking out against what is happening.