Border Patrol leader told to keep quiet about immigration open door policies

 Red State:

A former chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector delivered damning testimony Wednesday before the House Homeland Security committee, saying that he was muzzled by the administration and told not to release information about illegal border crossers with possible terrorist ties.

The chief alleged that the Biden-Harris regime was trying to mislead the public:

Aaron Heitke, who served as the chief patrol agent for U.S. Border Patrol’s San Diego sector, claimed during a House hearing Wednesday that arrests of “significant interest aliens” have increased since President Joe Biden took office.

He defined “significant interest aliens” as people with ties to terrorism and accused the administration of trying to cover up a rise in arrest statistics.

“At the time, I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests,” Heitke said. “The administration was trying to convince the public there was no threat at the border.”

"The Biden-Harris administration has intentionally left us vulnerable," the committee posted on its website.

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Fox News reporter Bill Melugin writes in the above tweet:

He says San Diego sector typically saw 10-15 SIA arrests per year, but in 2022, 2023, & 2024, when word was about the border was easy to get across, those numbers exploded to over 100 each year. 

He also testified that the Biden admin forbid him from speaking to the media, and he was told to move migrants out of sight of the media, also adding that, “I had to release illegal aliens by the hundreds each day into communities who could not support them. To quiet the problem, two flights a week were provided from San Diego to Texas. These flights simply brought aliens that would have been released in San Diego over to Texas.” [Bolding mine.]

This testimony is stunning, though not surprising. The Biden-Harris team has left a welcome mat for illegal aliens since day one of the regime, when they began systematically shredding former President Trump's far more effective border policies.

The committee reported that the administration's dereliction of duty has put the nation in danger. They note there have been over 10.1 million aliens encountered at our borders, with nearly two million "gotaways.” ...

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The Biden-Harris border policy has been irresponsible from day one of their administration and they are now trying to hide their evil ways.  Their policy is apparently to try to import as many illegals as they can in hopes of changing the demographics of the country and giving the Democrats a permanent majority.  They are willing to accept that criminals are also coming through their open borders policy and that is endangering citizens.