The US Border Patrol needs more resources and agents to manage record migrant encounters and illegal drug trafficking at the US-Mexico border, top officials told lawmakers.
Chief patrol agents Gloria Chavez and John Modlin gave a candid assessment in a Tuesday hearing before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
“We went from what I would describe as unprecedented to a point where I don’t have the correct adjective to describe what’s going on,” Modlin, who’s based in the Tucson, Ariz., sector of the border, said of the growing number of migrant apprehensions.
The hearing is the latest inflection point in ...
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