Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz: ‘300 to 400 Border Patrol Agents’ a Day Are out of Work Quarantining
‘We’ve lost 8 Border Patrol agents in the line of duty to Covid it or to other events and one is too many’
Aug 13, 2021 11:00 AM
By Grabien Staff
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TRANSCRIPT:
ORTIZ: "What we're experiencing now with unaccompanied children, family units, migrants from countries that we traditionally don’t experience these tremendous flows from or what our Border Patrol agents are faced with each and every day, and then you compound that with this Covid threat. At any given day, I may have between 300 and 400 Border Patrol agents that are in a quarantine status and, as you know, I wear this black badge over my — this black band over my badge because we’ve lost eight Border Patrol agents in the line of duty to Covid or to other events, and one is too many."
