The head of the U.S. Border Patrol called illegal immigration a national security threat, saying that the high number of known gotaways keeps him 'up at night.'
on Sunday, Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens warned that his agency is sometimes stretched thin, with 20,000 agents protecting nearly 2,000 miles at the
Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens calls the situation at the U.S. southern border a "national security threat." He tells"what's keeping me up at night is the 140,000 known" migrants that have entered the U.S. illegally and evaded apprehension in fiscal year 2024.across the border, wait for border patrol to respond, and then send another group a few miles down the road, Owens said.“We’re closing on a million entries this fiscal year alone,” Owens said.
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