Border Patrol Official: "We Created This Situation By Not Doing Anything"

[appalachiablue]

Source: CBS News

Manuel Padilla, chief of the Rio Grande Valley Sector of Customs and Border Protection, is responsible for the busiest area of illegal crossings in the country and for implementing the Trump administration "zero tolerance" policy that has drawn fire for separating families at the border.

The Rio Grande Valley Sector, Chief Padilla said, is the site of 40 percent of all apprehensions of people illegally crossing the border. He also noted it is responsible for 44 percent of all marijuana seizures at the border.

"It's a very complex situation," he told "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King. "When you have high levels of activity, and a lack of resources – personnel, technology, infrastructure – it creates this kind of chaotic environment."
"I know this is complicated for you and your team, but what people are talking about is cruel and inhuman behavior, is how it's perceived," said King. "Do you actually agree with this policy?"

"I do agree that we have to do something. We created this situation by not doing anything," Padilla said. "So what happened with zero tolerance is, we were exempting a population from the law. And what happens when you do that, it creates a draw for a certain group of people that rises to trends that become a crisis."...MORE..

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/border-patrol-official-we-created-this-situation-by-not-doing-anything/ar-AAyO5Je

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Report and "CBS This Morning" interview video at the link.

[awesomerwb1]

1. Rethuglicans created this

There was an option to pass immigration reform in 06 or 07 and nothing. In 2013 the Senate passed the Gang of Eight bill with 68 votes. Boehner didn't bring it to the floor for voting.

Now it's all about demonizing immigrants (poc) because that wins them votes with the teatrumper base. Now it's all about effectively taking young children hostage (stealing them?) to negotiate a wall.

These are extremist tactics from extremist traitors.

Get pissed. Get active. Vote.

[olegramps]

4. I am not impressed by his response. Sounds like a good solid type German response of 1930s.

Just doing my duty miss. Following orders. I don't make the rules. Got it all cataloged and very legal. See here is the form. Says it right here. I've got my ass covered. See you at church Sunday. Now get the hell out of here and quit holding up the parade. We got important work to do. We found one' M something or other, among 6,893 families we processed last month.

[Midnight Writer]

13. Who is this "we" he speaks of?

[lagomorph777]

2. This pseudo-crisis is entirely a RePutin fabrication. Influx has been low and dropping.

The only remaining people showing up without papers literally have no choice; they are refugees fleeing for their lives.

[Roy Rolling]

3. Yeah, I figured that

This is code for "Obama did nothing".

[appalachiablue]

6. As ever, 'Democrats to blame.' Enough.

[meadowlander]

5. You can enforce the law without separating families.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. They do these dastardly deeds to take the focus off the rest that they do

Michael Cohen stories are off the front page today, did you notice?

[samir.g]

8. anyone who works for BP or ICE is a fucking fascist

[atreides1]

9. They could be other things

They could be in the pockets of the cartels or the human traffickers...and still be fascists!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Fact Check from Snopes: The 1997 law does NOT require separating children from families.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-law-separate-families-passed-1997/

[C_U_L8R]

11. Blah, blah, blah... Now, release the children !!

[Sailor65x1]

12. He's absolutely right

This can has been kicked down the road by too many administrations now.

[mwooldri]

14. Doesn't make "zero tolerance" right though.

If the border official is saying he hasn't got the resources then lay off on implementing zero tolerance until they have the resources to do it properly.

NOT by putting kids in cages.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. The "can has been kicked" by CONGRESS not "administrations"

Congress controls the funding for the laws they pass which includes those that cover immigration.... and when they don't fund them, then "the law" becomes an "unfunded mandate".