Since Biden's election, 1 in 4 Border Patrol agents have left the agency.
(To be fair, I'd quit too if I was hired to guard the border and then told to open the border instead.)
More than 4,000 federal agents have left the Border Patrol since October 2020. Twice as many agents have chosen to retire early compared to retirement rates during the Obama and Trump administrations ...
'The administration is so bad for morale,' said a senior Border Patrol official who was not authorized to speak with media and spoke on the condition of anonymity. 'I'm not trying to be political. I'm just speaking facts. It's become so political. Catch and release is demoralizing for agents.'
If all they're doing is catch and release, and they're not even vetting a majority of the illegal entries, then their job IS pointless.
Morale couldn't be much lower. 👇
Matthew Hudak, recently retired second-in-command of Border Patrol, said work for many agents had become comparable to Groundhog Day, arresting illegal immigrants then releasing them into the United States rather than detaining or removing them. Hudak said it was humiliating for the federal law enforcement agents who had taken an oath to protect the country.
I can't imagine how humiliated and depressed your average Border Patrol agent is.
Of the more than 4,000 agents who have left Border Patrol some were retirements due to age (many more were early retirements).
The number of agents who chose to quit or took a job outside the Border Patrol has remained on par over the past decade between 600 and 900 each year.
The biggest change in why agents were leaving was noticed in retirements. Although mandatory retirements have remained below 100 each year, early retirements have soared under Biden.
Between 2014 and 2020, the number of early retirements averaged 257 per year. Since 2021, that figure has more than doubled to an average of 529 agents who chose to leave at the first chance they were eligible.
Law enforcement is seeing shortages nearly everywhere, not just at the border. But early retirement is somewhat surprising to see at a time when the economy is forcing many to stay in the workforce past retirement.
Some have lamented in conversations with the Washington Examiner that the job they signed up for two decades ago did not resemble their duties now and that the political climate has made them fearful of carrying out their jobs.
Gee ... I wonder why they'd be afraid to carry out their jobs.
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