Kamala Harris’s border security plan promises 1,500 extra border agents — which adds just one single on-shift border patrol officer for every five miles of the 1,933-mile southern border.
The extra force of 1,500 hires “is 300 or 400 more agents on the border [per shift] — or one more agent for every five miles, at best,” responded Ken Cuccinelli, the former acting border chief under President Donald Trump.
Only about 20 percent of agents are on a border shift at any particular time, said Tom Homan, a former top official at President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
So the addition of 1,500 extra agents “won’t move the needle … it is ridiculous” Homan told Breitbart News. “By the time you site these agents on the northern border, southern border, and on the maritime control, it makes zero difference.”
The far easier fix is to restore the border policies established by President Donald Trump, Homan said, adding:
They’re going down a rabbit hole here –you can secure the border with the same number of agents and the same number of immigration judges. All they have to do is change policies. […]
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