U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said during an interview this week that in his nearly thirty years serving in the agency, the border has never been secure.
Owens made the remarks during an interview Martha MacCallum about the U.S. Senate’s recently unveiled controversial border bill, which has received widespread pushback from Republicans.
As the head of the Border Patrol, Owens is responsible for trying to convince members of Congress to provide the agency with the tools and laws that it needs to succeed.
“There are definitely aspects of that bill that I liked for the agency,” he said. “And there’s aspects of it that, of course, I didn’t.”
When asked if the bill would have secured the southern border, Owens responded: “In the better part of 28 years, I have never seen a situation where I as a law enforcement professional would have said the border is secure.”
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