It’s open season on those guarding the nation’s southern boundary.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was assaulted near Eagle Pass, Texas, while he arrested a Mexican illegal alien and convicted drug-dealing felon who was previously deported several times, the government announced.
The assault comes as border-jumpers and human traffickers are becoming emboldened on the nation’s increasingly lawless southern border. Democrat resistance to President Trump’s plan to erect a border wall and lawmakers’ refusal to properly fund immigration enforcement efforts have no doubt made the already-dangerous border situation worse.
Mark Morgan, then head of the U.S. Border Patrol and now President Trump’s nominee to head U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE), told a congressional committee in September 2016 that Border Patrol agents “are among the most assaulted law enforcement personnel in the country.”
“There have been 7,542 assaults against agents since 2006, and 30 agents have died in the line of duty since 2003,” Morgan said at the time.