The border patrol chief of the United States, Mike Banks, told Fox News Wednesday that the morals in his agency is “through the roof” under the Trump administration.
Speaking to “America’s Newsroom,” said Banks, “we have had wives’ and” we are allowed to do our job, which is to leave and enforce the law.
“According to this administration, they have literally tasks of the wives and allowed us to enforce the law instead of the policies created to contradict the law and, therefore, our morality has continued to increase,” he continued.
Banks’ comments come after a new Customs and Border Protection report of the United States (CBP) that revealed that there were Ferwer Apensions on the southern border throughout the month of March that in the first two days of the month in 20244.
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The border patrol of the United States processes a group of migrants near a road in February 2024 outside Eagle Pass, Texas. Banks told Fox News that the arrests have fallen abruptly. (Sergio Flores/AFP through Getty Images)
Since he assumed the position in January, President Donald Trump has signed orders that end the citizenship of birth law, suspended refugee admissions, ended the use of an application on the southern border to admit migrants through humanitarian probation and resumed the border wall.
“Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, the border patrol agents have now done the work for which they registered: ensure the border, instead of serving as travel agents for illegal foreigners,” said Press Secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt. “The Los Angeles Times captured Trump’s effect on the border with a recent article. Its headline read ‘Border de California, Mexico, once too rejected, now almost empty with so few migrants who greet,” “” “” “” “” ”
Banks also told Fox News on Wednesday that the recruitment will “see well” and that the border patrol is “seeing some of our highest numbers in history.”
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A border patrol agent works to seal an illegal cross -border tunnel between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on March 11. (Herika Martínez/AFP through Getty Images)
“Really excited because you know, the previous four years under the Biden administration, we saw a massive exodus of the border patrol and saw some of our lower recruitment numbers. We are seeing the opposite,” he added. “We are seeing the agents take retirement paperwork to continue staying and serve, and we are seeing that our recruitment numbers are going through.”
Banks said at one time, the Eagle Pass area, Texas, “was seeing an average of three to four thousand [apprehensions] One day.
A large group of migrants, some who transport children, cross the Rio Grande and arrive at Eagle Pass, Texas, on September 27, 2023. (Benjamin Lowy for Fox News Digital)
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“At this time, Eagle Pass, Texas, is seeing an average of 18 apprehensions up to date and very few dropeways, little or none. Some days zero dropeways,” he said.
Peter Pinedo and Greg Wehner of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.