Outrage Follows Former Border Patrol Chief’s Revelation About Biden and Harris
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The internet is buzzing with outrage following former Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz’s startling revelation that neither President Joe Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris ever contacted him during his tenure, leaving critical issues unaddressed, according to Fox News.
In a Sunday interview, Ortiz claimed that his officers had become pawns in a political game, allowing Mexican cartels, who dominate cross-border business, to gain the upper hand. “I’ve never had one conversation with the president or the vice president, for that matter,” Ortiz stated. “And so I was the chief of the Border Patrol. I commanded 21,000 people; that’s a problem.”
After leading the Border Patrol for two years under President Biden and serving as deputy commander under President Donald Trump, Ortiz announced his retirement in May of last year. In the upcoming presidential election, Americans’ top concern appears to be the border crisis, which took center stage last week when Trump and Biden made separate trips to different regions of the Texas frontier on the same day. According to Ortiz, too many decisions are being made for the wrong reasons.
In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, he said, “When agencies are making a decision based upon politics or whether they’re gonna get media coverage … Hey, we’re gonna put all our personnel in this two-mile stretch … What about the other 200 miles?” Last week, it was reported that hundreds of individuals were traveling over 1,000 miles to enter Arizona from the quiet area of Texas chosen for Biden’s visit.
Meanwhile, a legal battle rages between the federal government and Texas over who controls the border. “In this political game between the two sides, National Guardsmen, even to some degree the Border Patrol agents, have become pawns,” Ortiz added. He pointed out that this was fantastic news for traffickers and smugglers. “The cartels, the criminal organizations, that’s who’s winning in all of this. They’re sitting back reaping all the benefits while they watch the state of Texas and Washington, D.C., go at it,” he declared.
Social media users criticized the Biden administration after Ortiz’s disclosures. One user stated on X, “How can this possibly be??? The administration CARES SO MUCH about the border and yet not one call from Biden or the border czar, Harris. Watch what they do, not what they say. Raul Ortiz better get ready to be arrested by the FBI.” Another user wrote, “That’s not surprising; for the Biden administration, the chaos at the border was a solution, not a problem.”
“Why the mixed signals,” another added. “If they let someone speak who really knows what’s happening at the border, they won’t be able to control the narrative with their low-information voters.”
