Manage? Manage? They managed to roundup the illegals that willingly walked up to the Border Patrol. We need leaders not managers.
Via CNS News
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske insisted Wednesday that last year’s surge of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens across the southwest U.S. border was merely a “border management issue,” and “not a border security issue.”
Speaking at the Brookings Institution, Kerlikowske, who was sworn in as CBP commissioner by President Obama in March last year, added the government’s response to the “humanitarian crisis” caused by the surge “highlights our commitment to transparency and openness” and “benefits our relationship with the public that we serve.”
“Last spring and summer, there was an unprecedented surge in the number of unaccompanied immigrant children and their families – tens of thousands of them, primarily from Central America, who arrived at our southwest border,” he said. “These children are vulnerable to trafficking schemes by adults who were eager to take advantage of them.”
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske insisted Wednesday that last year’s surge of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens across the southwest U.S. border was merely a “border management issue,” and “not a border security issue.”
Speaking at the Brookings Institution, Kerlikowske, who was sworn in as CBP commissioner by President Obama in March last year, added the government’s response to the “humanitarian crisis” caused by the surge “highlights our commitment to transparency and openness” and “benefits our relationship with the public that we serve.”
“Last spring and summer, there was an unprecedented surge in the number of unaccompanied immigrant children and their families – tens of thousands of them, primarily from Central America, who arrived at our southwest border,” he said. “These children are vulnerable to trafficking schemes by adults who were eager to take advantage of them.”
“Our agency’s response to that surge, and the response by the Department of Homeland Security in general, really illustrates our commitment to transparency and openness, and ultimately benefits the relationship with the public that we serve.”
“This was a border management issue, since nearly all these people we encountered turned themselves over to a border patrol agent, or a Customs and Border Protection officer. This was not a border security issue,” Kerlikowske said.