Why? Because they know they’re being made into scapegoats for the failed border policy of the Biden administration.
The Biden Administration is reportedly planning to punish the border agents accused of whipping migrants despite the debunked claims in that scandal. https://t.co/UzcBMJmFzy President Biden not only declared them guilty but pledged punishment before the start of the investigation
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) June 15, 2022
It’s hard to think of a more trumped-up charge than “administrative violations.” What, did they fail to sharpen their pencils to the required length?
Agents are predictably incensed. Said National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd to Fox News Digital:
What we’re seeing right now is the executive branch weaponizing the Office of Professional Responsibility to go after what President Biden perceives as political opponents. He doesn’t like the Border Patrol. He has never liked the mission of the Border Patrol. And now he is going after these agents because he panders to open border activists. This should never happen in this country.
He continued, explaining punishment was pre-ordained the second the most powerful man in the world demanded it:
The moment he made that statement, the moment he said that those agents would pay, the moment he convicted those agents without any evidence, without any investigation, there could be no doubt in anybody’s mind that these investigators were going to come back with some sort of charge against the agents.
They had no choice.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was also disgusted with the move, telling Daily Mail in an exclusive interview:
Border patrol agents deserve a president who will support them, not smear them — which is exactly what President Biden did when he promised, without knowing the facts, that agents would ‘pay’ for the false allegations of ‘whipping’ migrants.
