Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz announced his intention to retire from the post as head of the United States Border Patrol effective June 30.
Ortiz notified the nearly 20,000 active Border Patrol agents of his intentions in an agency-wide email earlier this week. Ortiz led the agency during the two busiest years for migrant encounters along the southwest border in the Border Patrol’s entire 99-year history.
Ortiz became chief of the Border Patrol in August 2021 following the retirement of Chief Rodney Scott. The Border Patrol reported more than 1.7 million migrant encounters for Fiscal Year 2021 which ended shortly after Ortiz took the helm. During the following year, migrant apprehensions rose to 2.3 million migrant encounters making it the busiest year for migrant apprehensions in the agency’s history. On May 28, the Border Patrol marked its 99-year anniversary.
In September 2021, shortly after Ortiz took the position as the agency head, the largest single-mass-migration event along the southwest border in United States history took place directly into his hometown of Del Rio, Texas. During a span of several weeks, nearly 30,000 mostly Haitian migrants made landfall on the banks of the Rio Grande near the small border city.
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