NBPC’s Art Del Cueto: ‘The Attacks on Border Patrol Agents Are Higher than They’ve Ever Been’

EXCERPT:

DEL CUETO: "What I can tell you is that we’re in an area where we’re losing a lot of agents. A lot of agents are leaving our agency. And the illegals that are still coming in are still coming in. When I first started this job, I would apprehend a group of, say, 80, and all of them would be pretty much peaceful and you wouldn’t see any attacks from this. What we’re seeing now is the attacks on Border Patrol agents are higher than they’ve ever been. The groups may be smaller, but they’re a lot more aggressive. They attack our agents a lot more. That needs to be taken care of. What the military would provide us is they would provide us an extra set of eyes or ears. That way the agent has enough time to move forward and effect the arrest. That’s what we’re looking for."