At the Border

Suspected terrorists crossing border 'at a level we have never seen before,' outgoing Border Patrol chief says - Washington Examiner

Unprecedented numbers of known or suspected terrorists have crossed the southern border in recent months, the outgoing Border Patrol chief said.

The head of the Border Patrol, Rodney Scott, told his 19,000 agents before retiring on Aug. 14 that their national security mission is paramount right now despite the Biden administration's focus on migrant families and children who are coming across the United States-Mexico boundary at record rates.

Over and over again, I see other people talk about our mission, your mission, and the context of it being immigration or the current crisis today being an immigration crisis,” Scott said in a video message to agents, obtained by the Washington Examiner. “I firmly believe that it is a national security crisis. Immigration is just a subcomponent of it, and right now, it’s just a cover for massive amounts of smuggling going across the southwest border — to include TSDBs at a level we have never seen before. That's a real threat.”

PEAYER:

- Oh, Lord, we look to You to help the Border Patrol keep our borders safe in spite of the hindering policies of those who are in power in DC. Lord, we ask that You would remove the ones not chosen by You to be in DC so that we may live a peaceable life in all Godliness and honesty. We pray for the Border Patrol to be able to devise wise strategies to deal with those especially evil and dangerous border-crossers to keep us all safe.

- "I do not pray that You should not take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one." (John 17:15)

- "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." (Galatians 5:1)