During a congressional hearing Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he will not restart construction of the border wall, insisting that Border Patrol agents …
During a congressional hearing Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he will not restart construction of the border wall, insisting that Border Patrol agents in general are not in support of it. But that isn’t true, contends Brandon Judd, a Border Patrol agent who serves as president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing thousands of line agents. “I do not know of one individual that does not think the wall works,” said Judd in an interview with the Washington Times. There isn’t one Border Patrol agent, he said, “that does not think walls allow us to dictate where border crossings take place.” In his reversal of President Trump’s immigration policies, Biden has canceled some funding for wall construction and put the rest on hold. At the hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday, Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida said he had heard agents tell him the wall “is definitely something that they could use, something that they want.
