EXCLUSIVE:
Officials Defy Trump’s Promises: 40 Miles of Border Ordered Unpatrolled
by Brandon Darby & Ildefonso Ortiz 18 Apr 2017
U.S. Border
Patrol agents are once again sounding the alarm about miles of border being
left wide open and unsecured. Breitbart Texas exclusively obtained a document
showing a Havre Sector Border Patrol manager knowingly issuing orders to leave
40 miles of Montana border open and unpatrolled. Obama
holdovers in the Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) agency are continuing with the same careless
disregard in the Trump Administration that they did under former President
Obama, according to Border Patrol agents.
Breitbart Texas has the specific order that was given to
the agents signed by the Obama-holdover manager. The order demands that agents
on the northern border stay within one assigned zone and are not to leave that
zone to patrol other zones that the agents have historically patrolled — even
though there are no agents assigned to patrol the other zones. The Havre Sector
has six Border Patrol stations and the order applies to one of these stations
consisting of six zones. A total of 60 linear miles are covered by the one
Border Patrol station in question, yet agents say that this only allows them to
patrol 20 of the 60 miles of border.
When Breitbart Texas asked multiple Border Patrol agents
about motives for the manager leaving such a vast swath of border unpatrolled,
the agents felt that it was twofold; they blamed previous Obama-era policies
and they also believed that widespread corruption exists within the Havre
Sector’s upper-management.
One of the Border Patrol agents who was present when the
manager gave the order spoke to Breitbart Texas on the condition of anonymity
and said, “Criminal cartels exploit our weaknesses on a daily basis and they’re
certainly going to exploit such a large area of open and unpatrolled border.”
Another agent from the station told us on the same condition, “From a border
security standpoint, this directive makes no sense, but there has to be a
reason so I don’t think it’s a far stretch to conclude it’s due to corruption.”
And yet another agent from the station speaking to us on the same condition
said, “This order has to be coming from the Sector Chief and Deputy Chief
Patrol Agents. They, along with the Station’s Patrol Agent in Charge and Deputy
Patrol Agent in Charge, need to be immediately reassigned until a full and
thorough investigation can be done into this order.”
Border Patrol Agent Brandon Judd, President of the
National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) was appalled when he heard of this
incident from agents — thereby confirming to Breitbart Texas the authenticity
of the other agents’ concerns. He told Breitbart Texas that there have been
more complaints filed out of the Havre sector than any other sector within
recent years. Unfortunately, he says the agency has justified all of the
manager’s actions. Agent Judd said anytime you have managers investigating
other managers, the result is always “no cause of wrong doing found.”
Agent Judd said there must be accountability from the top
down. “I believe Secretary Kelly’s constant praise of former Secretary Jeh
Johnson is an endorsement of his
open border policies. There are so many good managers in the Border Patrol, but
when Secretary Kelly condones his predecessors failures, he opens the door for
the bad managers to act like this and bring shame on the entire organization.”
Agent Judd continued, “President Trump is the president of the common citizen
and the choice of the rank-and-file Border Patrol Agents; unfortunately there
are those highly paid career managers who want to believe they’re above
everyone else — up to and including the President of the United States.”
Agent Judd said the rank-and-file Border Patrol agents
have spoken with the managers at the station in question until they were blue
in the face — all to no avail. “Managers who sit behind a desk and never
patrol the border should never dictate operations and policy, otherwise this is
what you get.”
Multiple Border Patrol agents who were present for the
manager’s order to leave 40 miles of border open spoke with Breitbart Texas.
They said that all Border Patrol agents who were present argued with the
manager and informed him they felt the order was “illegal and was dereliction
of duty.” They even argued it was contrary to the President Trump’s
express wishes as set forth in the Border Security Executive Order. The agents
asked for the rationale behind the order, but the manager refused to provide
one, according to them.
Luckily for all of the Border Patrol agents present, a
representative of the NBPC who is also an agent walked into the muster room as
the order was given, and he wrote the order down verbatim, according to the
agents. Not only did he document the order, but the agents claim he read it
back to the manager and asked, “did I twist your words?” and the manager
responded that he did not. The agent and NBPC representative had all agents
present sign the documentation, and he asked the manager to also sign the
order, which the manager did.
Breitbart Texas showed the handwritten and signed order
we obtained to Agent Judd, and he confirmed that agents were, in fact, given
this order. He pointed to the manager’s signature on the order as authentic. We
provide the leaked document below. The names have been redacted to avoid any
chance of revealing the exact station in the Havre Sector.
Customs and Border
Protection (CBP)
Jayson P. Ahern
was an acting commissioner for the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP),
and is a principal for the Chertoff
Group.
Note: Michael Chertoff
is a co-founder & chairman for the Chertoff
Group, the chairman for BAE Systems
Inc., and was the secretary for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
Lee H. Hamilton is
a director at BAE Systems Inc., a co-chair
for the Independent Task Force on
Immigration and America's Future, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a
member of the Homeland Security Advisory
Council, and David F. Hamilton’s
uncle.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
John R. Allen is
a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Richard C. Blum
is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a board member at the Haas School of Business, a regent at the University of California, and married to Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Laura D'Andrea
Tyson was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and is a professor at the Haas School of Business.
Haas
School of Business is a business school at the University of California, Berkeley.
University
of California, Berkeley is a University
of California campus.
David H. Romer
was a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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speech by Breitbart News tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, according to Bay Area
public broadcaster KQED.
Kenneth
Canterbury is the president of the Fraternal
Order of Police, and a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council.
Lee H. Hamilton is
a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council, a director at BAE
Systems Inc., a co-chair for the Independent
Task Force on Immigration and America's Future, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
David F. Hamilton’s uncle.
Michael Chertoff
is the chairman for BAE Systems Inc.,
a co-founder & chairman for the Chertoff
Group, and was the secretary for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
Jayson P. Ahern
is a principal for the Chertoff Group,
and was an acting commissioner for the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
David F. Hamilton
is Lee H. Hamilton’s nephew, and was
a canvasser for the Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was the plaintiff in ACORN
vs. Illinois State Board of Elections.
Barack
Obama was the attorney for ACORN vs.
Illinois State Board of Elections, and an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was a legal adviser for the Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past
Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
David H. Romer
was a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Lee H. Hamilton is
an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, a director at BAE Systems Inc., a co-chair for the Independent Task Force on Immigration and
America's Future, and David F.
Hamilton’s uncle.
Michael Chertoff
is the chairman for BAE Systems Inc.,
a co-founder & chairman for the Chertoff
Group, and was the secretary for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
Reginald
Brothers was a director for mission applications for BAE Systems Inc., an undersecretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and is a principal for the Chertoff Group.
Jayson P. Ahern
is a principal for the Chertoff Group,
and was an acting commissioner for the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Charles E. Allen
is a principal for the Chertoff Group,
and was an undersecretary for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
is a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Jay M. Cohen was
an undersecretary for science & technology for the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, and is a principal
for the Chertoff Group.
Debbie
Eng was an associate executive secretary for the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, and is a managing
director for the Chertoff Group.
Chad C. Sweet was
a chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and is a co-founder & CEO for
the Chertoff Group.
Paul A. Schneider
was a deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and a principal for the Chertoff
Group.
Jayson P. Ahern
is a principal for the Chertoff Group,
and was an acting commissioner for the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
is a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
John F. Kelly is
the secretary at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the Donald Trump administration,
and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Kenneth
Canterbury is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council,
and the president of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Lee H. Hamilton is
a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council, a director at BAE
Systems Inc., a co-chair for the Independent
Task Force on Immigration and America's Future, David F. Hamilton’s uncle, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
David H. Romer
was a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
David M.
Rubenstein is co-chairman for the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and was a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Jeh Charles
Johnson is a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison, and was the secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
is a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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