Editor NWC: The following information has been provided to Northwest Connection by Thomas Maguire who worked as a contractor for the Arizona Border Patrol during the Obama presidency years.
Mr. Maguire, thank you for allowing me to question you about your experience while contracted to the Border Patrol on the Arizona-Mexico border. Such first-hand evidence is difficult to find.
Thomas Maguire: I was posted at the INS/Border Patrol/ICE Center in Nogales Az.
The pictures which have been published over and over by the media for the last couple of weeks show the inside of the Nogales facility and other facilities which are all virtually the same.
These photographs are misleading at a minimum. And even Fox News, regarded as conservative, has been guilty of publishing inaccuracies.
Editor NWC: Mr. Maguire, what should our readers know? What are the facts as you lived them?
The facts: With the exception of OTM’s (Other than Mexicans) and those having been found to have outstanding criminal issues, the facilities shown in the photos house these persons for less than 24 hours. At eight o’clock every morning (including weekends and holidays), buses line up to transport virtually everyone who’d been apprehended the previous day out of the facility. We were averaging approx. 300 a day. I think it’s more now. In other words if you are brought in at 6am you will eat breakfast and in 2 hours, hop on a bus!
These buses head either to the border entrance where Mexican nationals are given a bus ticket (if they live within a few hundred miles of Nogales) and politely asked to head home. The rest are brought to an aircraft located at Davis Monthan Air Force Base. This plane then departs for Mexico City where the remainder are released. Obviously, arranging transportation for non-Mexicans usually take a bit longer.
The most recent photograph of a child crying while a woman is being searched, puts the cherry on top of the medias exhaustive efforts to use whatever means necessary to justify their agenda. If anyone cared enough to ask someone who actually knows (like me or any one of a thousand Border Patrol Agents), they would tell you what is happening in this photo.
“The mother and child in the now-iconic photo of family separation not only were not separated, but their claims of asylum are also likely bogus, experts tell the Washington Times.
“The woman, identified in news report as Sandra Sanchez, was deported from the U.S. in 2013, which analysts said suggest her latest attempt to enter the U.S. is likely about illegal immigration rather than asylum.”
In my law enforcement career spanning many years, I have had the opportunity to be in the company of law enforcement professionals across the whole country. The men and woman of Border Patrol – who are comprised of 50 percent Hispanics nationwide but closer to 70 percent on the US/MEX border – are the most professional, compassionate and dedicated individuals I have ever had the honor of working with, with virtually no exceptions. Not once have I ever seen an agent treat a detainee with disrespect or physical aggression. These professionals exemplify the “Golden Rule.” Not the case for several of the departments and agencies which I have worked for; where many were unfit to wear badge and gun.
Now, if you would, picture a parent volunteering as a crossing guard near an elementary school. Imagine her as she has just escorted a group of children to the curb. Just then she turns to see a young child stepping into the street across the intersection as traffic begins to move again. She runs back and scoops the child up like a sack of potatoes, notebooks, pencils and action figures flying every which way as a cars brakes squeal. The look on the face of the child is a look of shock and terror. Thankfully, both make it to safety. A driver snaps a picture of the nearly averted catastrophe. He e-mails the picture to local news to trumpet the bravery and selfless act of the crossing guard. The Five O’clock news runs the story like this: “Local woman being investigated for the physical abuse of a young child she was responsible to protect. All caught on film.”
Border Patrol agents must feel like that crossing guard every time they turn on the TV!
I will never know how those on the left can sleep or look in a mirror. If I assume it comes down to the ends justifying the means, I’m still confused about what those “ends” look like.
I was talking with a border patrol agent today about the fake news regarding separation of kids from their parents. The agent told me that in his 15 years with the agency, he has never separated a mother from a child. He did say that at the processing facility, if the child is the opposite sex from the parent or guardian, it may be necessary to place them in different holding areas if space is not available for them. This is my recollection as well.
I remarked to the agent; “you know, I couldn’t count the number of times I have heard of a child being removed from a parent resulting from a failure to use proper car seats, or seatbelts, or leaving a child in the car unattended to shop etc., placing the child in the care of child protective services. And often times, I can certainly agree that it could be appropriate for the safety of the child. “
I said : “yet travelling with a child atop a fast moving freight train, inside the trailer of a tractor trailer, in the trunk of a car or across the desert in 100 degrees is just fine? “ He said it was useless to try to understand the logic; it would just drive you nuts.
The left doesn’t hesitate to fully support taking a child from its parents if they smoke in their own house; yet, they’re apoplectic in the case of these illegal border crossers.
Like it’s been said: “if it weren’t for a double standard, the left would have no standards at all!”
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