Prior to joining the Texas Public Policy Foundation in the fall of 2021, Rodney Scott served as the 24th Chief of the United States Border Patrol. During his three-decade career in the Border Patrol, under both Republican and Democrat administrations, Scott earned the respect and admiration of agents, colleagues and partners alike while working to successfully enforce our nation’s laws and secure our borders.
The No. 1 issue in America today is the crisis at the border with some 10 million illegal immigrants crossing into the nation since President Joe Biden reversed President Donald Trump’s border security policies on day one. In a speech that ran 67 minutes, a little short by modern standards and six minutes shorter than his speech last year,...
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has stated numerous times—publicly and before Congress—that “all non-citizen migrants are vetted before being released into the United States.” So, when you hear the term “vetted,” what does that imply to you? Dictionary.com defines “vetting” as, “noun; the act or process of appraising or checking a person or thing...
How many people entered the U.S. illegally in fiscal year 2022? More than 2.76 million, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB). That’s roughly equivalent to the population of Chicago. That number does not include the legal immigrants that CBP inspected, nor does it include the millions of individuals that CBP interacts with...
Growing up in a small border town, we weren’t accustomed to large volumes of crime, such as road chases, home break-ins, damaged property, large amounts of drugs, and human smuggling rings in our own backyard. The morning chatter from my neighbors used to be ranchers looking for lost livestock or congratulating the local basketball team...
The president and vice president made up their minds as soon as they saw the photos of mounted Border Patrol agents riding behind fleeing Haitian illegal immigrants. With reins flying in the riders’ wake, there were immediate claims that Haitians had been “whipped.” “It’s horrible what you saw,” President Joe Biden said. “To see people...