Trump administration picks a new leader for US Border Patrol
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday named a 27-year Border Patrol veteran who has forcefully advocated for the president's agenda to lead the agency after a surge of asylum-seeking families led to increased scrutiny and unprecedented turmoil on the Mexican border.
“I am confident that under his leadership, the men and women of the Border Patrol will be well served, the laws of this nation will be enforced, and our borders will be secured,” said Morgan, who spent much of his career in the FBI and was a himself a break from tradition when named the first outsider to lead the Border Patrol during a short spell in the Obama administration.
San Diego was also where wall construction began in the 1990s, which shaped Scott’s belief that barriers work. Story continuesArrests on the southern border sank to a 45-year low during Trump’s first year in office but then rose sharply, more than doubling in the 2019 fiscal year from the previous 12-month period to 851,508, the highest level since 2007.
Agents pleaded for help as conditions worsened but it wasn't until last summer, when reports of horrid conditions and detainees and children dying were published, that Congress authorized additional funding to increase capacity. Provost was the first female leader of the male-dominated agency. She helped modernize the agency's use of force manual, vastly changing how agents used force and were held accountable for it.
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