Lawmakers who have co-signed Tony Gonzales' letter say any lapse in CBP staffing could overwhelm the agency and allow more people to enter the U.S. illegally.
on Wednesday asking him to consider alternatives to enforcing the vaccine requirement on the CBP workforce.
"Our men and women in the Border Patrol have worked tirelessly to manage the crisis at our southern border," the letter reads."This year especially, they have been subject to extraordinary amounts of mental and physical stress. With morale at an all-time low, this mandate will serve as the last straw for agents who can easily leave the agency for other law enforcement organizations at the state and local level or retire.
The letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says it takes"400 days for [Border Patrol]) applicants to go through the hiring process" and"over 20 weeks" for them to be trained. Here, an asylum-seeker from Colombia injects insulin after he turned himself in to Border Patrol agents on May 13, in Yuma, Arizona.
A large number of the individuals attempting to cross the border come from Central America's Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. These three countries rank among the six poorest in the Western Hemisphere, and are plagued by gang violence and environmental devastation that are tied to global warming. These problems have been exacerbated by
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