A Conversation With a Border Patrol Agent

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

President Trump vowed to crack down on undocumented immigration and empower the Border Patrol. Three years later, the agency is the target of outrage, protest and investigation into its mission and conduct, and many of the agents who have supported Mr. Trump say that morale is low. We spoke with one of them. Guest: Art Del Cueto, a Border Patrol agent in Arizona and vice president of the National Border Patrol Council. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: Overwhelmed by desperate migrants and criticized for mistreating those in their care, many agents, whose work has long been viewed as a ticket to the middle class, have grown frustrated and bitter.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:32.6	This is The Daily.
0:35.6	Every day I'm president, we will track down the gang members, drug dealers, child predators,
0:43.6	and criminal aliens that we find, we will get them, we will throw them the hell out of
0:50.3	our country or put them in jail.
0:55.1	One of the outcomes of Donald Trump's vow to crack down on undocumented immigration
1:00.6	was that he would empower the country's border patrol agents in a way they had never
1:05.9	been before.
1:06.9	The Border Patrol agents, 16,500 Border Patrol agents, endorsed Donald Trump.
1:11.6	They know what's going on.
1:13.1	Prompting their union to issue its first-ever endorsement of a presidential candidate.
1:19.2	And their job is much easier now than when they're with me.
1:22.5	They're going to be working hard.
1:25.5	But three years later, Border Patrol agents are the subject of outrage, protest, and investigation
1:36.4	over their mission and conduct in the Trump era.
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