U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said over the weekend that the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who have evaded capture and made it into the U.S. homeland keep him up at night and that the situation is a “national security threat.”
Owens made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CBS News’ “Face The Nation” while talking about how Mexican drug cartels effectively set the rules of engagement on the southern border.
“They dictate what the flow is going to look like, and we respond to it,” he said. “Then we try and get out in front of it and deny them the ability to use these areas, especially ones that we think are going to be dangerous for us and for the migrants. But at the end of the day, there’s over 1,900 miles of border with Mexico. Now, when you talk about 20,000 border patrol agents, that sounds like a lot. But when you multiply that by 24 hours…
