A U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) Border Patrol Agent (BPA) is now under investigation for doing his job: He pushed back a family group of illegal aliens attempting to illegally enter the United States. For his imagined sins, he is now under investigation for doing what all BPAs should be doing. Instead of rewarding the agent for his initiative and success in preventing an illegal entry, punishment is a possibility, including criminal prosecution.

The US Border Patrol has opened an investigation into an agent who was caught illegally turning a family of asylum-seekers who were already in US back to Mexico, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

The move is violation of US law and Border Patrol policies that require agents to arrest anyone who has entered the country illegally.

‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility is reviewing this situation,’ US Customs and Border Protection, the parent agency of the Border Patrol, told DailyMail.com Monday.

A family of six from Venezuela, including girls aged one and four, illegally crossed from Mexico into El Paso, Texas Sunday morning…

The federal agent drove up to the family and ordered them back to Mexico, repeatedly pointing that they go back, as witnessed firsthand by DailyMail.com.

US Border Patrol Agent Under Investigation After He Was Caught Returning Migrants To Mexico After They Had Already Crossed Into The US Near El Paso, Texas, Federal Government Confirms, by Maryanne Martinez, Daily Mail, January 2, 2024

The Mexican reporter is just plain wrong. There is no USBP policy that all illegal aliens have to be arrested once they cross the border. Push–back, hold-the-line, and deterrence are official USBP and State enforcement strategies. In fact, the open borders crowd condemns various prevention methods to prevent illegal immigration. 

It was in this environment, against the backdrop of rising nativist sentiment, that the Clinton administration launched Operation Gatekeeper on Oct. 1, 1994. The operation promised “prevention through deterrence.” It beefed up enforcement in urban areas around San Diego and pushed migration to rural, less visible areas. Operation Gatekeeper also disrupted border communities by instituting checkpoints, boots on the ground, technology and border wall infrastructure.

For 25 Years, Operation Gatekeeper Has Made Life Worse For Border Communities, Pedro Rios, October 1, 2019

In fact, back in 2018, there was a zerg rush by hundreds of illegal aliens who attacked the border, crossing the Tijuana River to penetrate the border wall. The USBP strategy was to meet the attack with force, including tear gas and batons, forcing back most illegal aliens.

So, there is no mandatory arrest policy: push-back and deterrence are options for BPAs, but now the government is lying, claiming that the BPA in this case violated policy. He did not. He was deterring and preventing an illegal entry. That is within policy and his legal authority. In the old days, it was quite common for BPAs just to chase illegal aliens back to the border, with the illegals crossing back to Mexico. In the case of illegal alien drug smugglers, it even has its own name, splash-downs, where the load vehicle crashes into the Rio Grande and the smugglers flee across the river [Cartel Smugglers ‘Splashdown’ in Rio Grande with 800 Pounds of Marijuana, by Bob Price, Breitbart, June 30, 2017].

Sadly, the Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Internal Affairs Unit are following instructions from open borders advocates rather than following the law.

‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility is reviewing this situation,’ US Customs and Border Protection, the parent agency of the Border Patrol, told DailyMail.com Monday…

‘They’re not supposed to be turning people away, especially if they are already in US territory,’ Crystal Sandoval, with Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Group, told DailyMail.com.

‘It’s not supposed to be happening.’

Perhaps the Republicans in the house should include mandatory push-back in their new border bill, so as to protect BPAs and the nation from invaders. Worse yet, the family of Venezuelan invaders may even be rewarded with green cards for being a “victim” of a crime.