|
Take Action |
|
UPDATED LETTER (April 4th, 2013)
While
it appears as though Congress appropriated sufficient funds to pay the
salaries of Border Patrol agents within the current Continuing
Resolution (CR), CBP has yet to make a decision on the spending plan.
Consequently, the proposed plans and indecision have unnecessarily
caused Border Patrol agents and their families to worry about their
safety at work and the uncertainty of their financial stability. Please take
action to prevent CBP from reducing the numbers and pay of Border
Patrol agents who risk their lives daily to patrol our borders and keep
our nation safe.
|
|
|
Secretary Napolitano’s Remarks on Border Safety Simply Not True |
|
|
Friday, 25 March 2011 |
|
March 25, 2011 - San Diego, CA - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano’s recent remarks concerning border safety are wrong and give citizens a false sense of security.
Napolitano stated that the idea that violence is spilling into U.S.
border cities is “wrong” and that “the border is better now than it ever
has been."
The violence that has occurred along the border in recent years shows
that crime indeed is spilling over from Mexico. Three Border Patrol
agents have been murdered by the cartels in the last three years,
ranchers and citizens have been gunned down in border communities, and
the Phoenix area has risen to become a cartel related crime hotspot.
If the border was better now than it has ever been Border Patrol Agent
Brian Terry would not have been brutally murdered by heavily armed
Mexican criminals operating over 13 miles inside the United States. In
some countries that is construed as an act of war, but here we get words
not deeds when Napolitano terms events like this as evidence, “there is
much to do with our colleagues in Mexico in respect to the drug
cartels.”
It is time for the political games to stop for fear of insulting the
government of Mexico. U.S. citizens are being kidnapped and killed while
our Border Patrol agents fight a war at home that no one will allow
them to win. Not one more Border Patrol agent should fall or citizen be
victimized because our government fails to act. Mexico is hemorraghing
violence and we are being hit with the splatter.
The U.S.-Mexico border is unsafe and to say anything else is not true.
###
The National Border Patrol Council is a professional labor union
representing more than 17,000 Border Patrol Agents and support staff.
The NBPC was founded in 1965, and is recognized as one of the most
effective labor organizations in the Federal sector.
For more information please contact Shawn Moran, Vice President at 800-620-1613 x81
|
Police Officer William Sprague succumbed to injuries sustained the previous night when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver while investigating a disturbance at Grady T. Wallace Park at approximately... 
Trooper Sean O'Connell was killed when his motorcycle was struck by another vehicle as he controlled traffic in Conway, Washington.
He was struck near the intersection of Fir Island Road and... 
