The former Chief Patrol Agent (CPA) for the San Diego Sector, and prior to that, the CPA for the Grand Forks Sector, responsible for border security operations along 861 miles of the U.S and Canadian border, issued explosive evidence against the Biden-Harris administration on Tuesday, saying he was warned not to release any information on the increase in illegal immigrants with ties to terrorism crossing the border illegally.
“The only true consequence we have to slow down and discourage people from coming into the United States illegally is sending them back to their country of origin,” Former CPA Aaron Heitke explained to the Homeland Security Committee. “Throughout the first three-plus years of the administration I saw a steady decrease in the countries we can send people back to. For the first time in my 25 years and under five different administrations whether through neglect or on purpose, I saw a large-scale lapse in our ability to return people to the country of origin. The inability to send people home meant that most people being arrested for illegal entry would either have to be detained or released.”
He turned to the Biden-Harris administration: “The current administration, however, from day one, made a point of decreasing the amount of detention space available nationwide. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s funding for detention has steadily been cut and private detention eliminated. The fact that so many illegal aliens are being released into the United States has spread worldwide very quickly. As this happened, the numbers Border Patrol encountered illegally crossing the border increased exponentially.”
“The impact to me and my agents were significant,” he continued. “Sectors were ordered to take in and process all illegal aliens encountered on the border. The Border Patrol saw groups of hundreds and thousands coming into the United States and turning themselves in. These numbers pulled 80, 90, sometimes 100% of the agents on duty away from the border. Border Patrol zones across Texas, Arizona, and California had no agent presence for weeks and months at a time. Those who did not want to be caught could simply walk in. We have no idea who and what entered our country over this time.”
“Throughout 2022 and ’23 I sent agents to Texas and Arizona to count gotaways,” he recalled. “Those sectors could not even put enough agents in the field to see what they had missed.”
Then he revealed the alarming directive from the Biden-Harris administration (emphasis added): “Simultaneously in San Diego, we had an exponential increase in significant interest aliens. These are aliens with significant ties to terrorism. Prior to this administration, the San Diego sector averaged 10 to 15 SIA arrests per year. Once word was out the border was far easier to cross San Diego went to over 100 SIAs in 2022 well over that in 2023, and even more than that registered this year. These are only the ones we caught. At the time I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests. The [Biden-Harris] administration was trying to convince the public there was no threat at the border.”
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