{"id":80869,"date":"2024-12-19T02:14:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T08:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=80869"},"modified":"2024-12-19T02:18:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T08:18:06","slug":"for-the-border-patrol-the-long-night-of-biden-and-mayorkas-is-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/19\/for-the-border-patrol-the-long-night-of-biden-and-mayorkas-is-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"For The Border Patrol, The Long Night Of Biden And Mayorkas Is Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For The Border Patrol, The Long Night Of Biden And Mayorkas Is Ending<\/a><\/h1>\n

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(By A Former Border Patrol Agent)<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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A few days ago, I was talking to a friend who had recently retired from the Border Patrol. It\u2019s been a few years since I pulled the plug on my own career, so it was interesting to catch up with him on things that had happened since I was no longer in the loop. This might be a little inside baseball, but some might find this interesting.<\/h2>\n

There was the usual gossip about who is going through a divorce and who had been promoted (whether deservedly or not). In order to get the best retirement possible, my friend had not gone on vacation for nearly a whole year. Considering how low morale is, that is impressive.<\/h2>\n

However, he said that he used a lot of his \u201cMayorkas Days\u201d. Mayorkas Days? What in the world was that? It turns out that each time Mayorkas rolled out a new unpopular policy, he was\u00a0giving Agents administrative<\/a>\u00a0leave. This did not count as part of the Agents\u2019 annual leave and was meant to mollify the Agents.<\/h2>\n

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Of course, if Agents are going on leave (regardless of what the bureaucracy wants to call it), then that means other Agents have to fill in the gaps. So, that meant fewer Agents processing or in the field which in turn leads to lower morale. Here\u2019s an article on it from the Washington Times earlier this year:\u00a0Taxpayers foot bill for Mayorkas\u2019 generosity; employees given $2.6 billion in extra vacation time<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0By Stephen Dinan, September 2, 2024.<\/h2>\n

This might be great for the Agents still working, but it costs the government because you are paying for an Agent who is not there.<\/h2>\n

When I first came into the Patrol, we would often write up I-213s in the field grabbing the bare bones essentials on the illegal aliens we had just caught, i.e. name, DOB, where on the border they were caught. Officially, the I-213 is the \u201cRecord of Deportable\/Inadmissible Alien.\u201d The transportation Agent would pick up the aliens in a van, take the aliens back to the station, in put their info in a computer, then (as long as they were Mexican) drive them back to the Port of Entry and send them across the bridge back to Viejo Mexico.<\/h2>\n

The processing was minimal and you were back to work in no time. As we got more Other Than Mexicans (OTMs), then we had to do an A-file and that could take you over two hours, especially, if you hadn\u2019t done one in a while. It also depended on how anal your supervisor was. Thanks to Angel Maturino-Resendiz, nicknamed the\u00a0Railroad Killer<\/a>\u00a0because he would\u00a0stow away in boxcars<\/a>\u00a0and kill people who lived near the railway tracks, we had to take fingerprints more and more often.<\/h2>\n

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Maturino had been caught several times by the Border Patrol and simply sent back to Mexico as it was not known he was wanted. The fingerprinting slowed the processing down. We used to have to fax fingerprint copies to the FBI, and the FBI loved to send them back saying that the prints were poor quality. Over time, we got electronic fingerprint systems and this did speed things up, but it still took a good two hours, often more, to process up an A File on an OTM, or, anyone with a criminal background.<\/h2>\n

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With the Mayorkas Administration (again, Biden was never running things), the floodgates of illegal aliens were all being let in, but they still had to be processed. So, to speed things up in 2021, they created a new position called a \u201cBorder Patrol Processing Coordinator\u201d:\u00a0U.S. Border Patrol Creates New Position to Support Border Patrol Agents<\/a>, CBP.gov, January 29, 2021.<\/h2>\n

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