The President's ongoing desire to find a way to deliver a de facto amnesty to millions of illegal aliens continues to ring alarm bells, including among those who are geting shot at as the "boots on the ground" on the US-Mexico border.
Relations between Border Patrol management and rank-and-file agents appear unusually tense, with many agents feeling estranged from their leadership and angered by President Bush's push for what they view as amnesty for illegal immigrants.Posted by Alan at April 27, 2007 05:37 AMThe rift widened this week when leaders of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing 11,000 of the force's 13,000 agents, made public its unanimous vote of no-confidence in Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar.
Local union representatives, rather than their national leaders, pressed for the vote at their recent convention in Corpus Christi, council Executive Vice President Richard Pierce said. More than 100 of the local leaders, most of them senior agents, participated....
"This no-confidence vote is an indictment against the entire administration and its policies, including Michael Chertoff and the president," [union President T.J.] Bonner said. "Their policies and their philosophy is just counter to what the men and women out there on the line believe needs to be done to secure our borders."