Jon Anfinsen, the president of the Del Rio chapter of the National Border Patrol Union, said Border Patrol agents are struggling with low morale as they have come to terms with a new normal of attempting to stop tens of thousands of border crossings each month.
“Morale is just, it’s just kind of nonexistent,” Anfinsen told NTD News. “And it’s been that way for a while. The past couple years have been rough.”
In his sector, Anfinsen said a busy week four or five years ago would have consisted of intercepting about 1,000 people attempting to cross the border.
“Then we jumped up to do weeks where we had 12–13,000 in a week and then now we’re down to about like four to 5,000 in a week [in Del Rio],” he said. “So we’re still incredibly busy.”…