Former
Border Patrol Deputy Chief: ‘All of the Good That Was Done after 9/11 Up to Now
Has Been Reversed Singlehandedly’
By Ryan Lovelace
Former
national deputy chief of the U.S. Border Patrol Ronald Colburn tells National
Review Online that the Obama administration has undone all of the progress made
at America ’s southern border since 9/11.
“We’re
back to a pre-9/11 situation basically, and this administration did that in the
past five years,” he says. “All of the good that was done after 9/11 up to now
has been reversed singlehandedly.”
Colburn,
who spent more than 30 years working for U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
says the resulting national-security risk has to do with the “clutter” of
people at the border. He says all of the gains made since 9/11 came as a result
of reducing the number of people crossing the border. The Border Patrol’s task
is to sort through the haystack of people as they come across, he says. “What
this situation on the border is doing is growing the haystack, is adding clutter,
so that those dangerous needles get through because we’re tied up capturing,
instead, juvenile children from Guatemala and El Salvador ,” he says. “When you see the
cartels — the Zetas and MS-13 and the Gulf Cartel — laughing about this on the
Internet, you know what’s behind it.”
Colburn
says the “gangsters down south” enjoy social media, taking selfies, and talking
about one another online. Border Patrol officials monitor the cartels’ online
communications along with officials from the Department of Defense and
intelligence community, he says.
Originally published on www.nationalreview.com
Ben Ferro
benferro@insideins.com
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