Andrew Sage

And that may kind of change things because those people are joining specifically because they want to fuck with migrants.

And while that's always been...

thing for border patrol a lot of people joined border patrol because it's the easiest way to become technically a federal agent yeah and it's it can be a path to becoming a better kind of federal agent sure you can it's a career thing which is why part of why there's so much churn part of why

BP, just to characterize some of the issues the organization has had, has consistently offered waivers for the academic qualifications that other agencies would not offer waivers for.

They have a problem, a serious problem, with sexual assault, not just of migrants, but of women in the Border Patrol.

They call the women in the Border Patrol the FIAS 5%, because this is an agency that has not succeeded in...

getting more than five percent of its agents to be women like it is an agency that has i guess for want of a better term radicalized even even you know within dhs agencies yeah

I mean, all of the most brutal incidents of use of force in like Portland in 2020 that came from feds was border patrol.

That was Bortec.

Yeah.

Bortec.

Yeah.

I would encourage people if they want to get a sense of how border patrol sees itself to go to the social media page that Bovino curates and has curated for a while to look.

And again, he was, uh, my understanding like hemmed up for his social media posts in the Biden administration.

He's obviously not being restrained in that way.

Now go and look at, uh,

I think it's called Border Patrol Special Operations Command or DHS Special Operations Command, which includes BORTAC.

Go and look at their pages, right?

Like these guys, they see themselves in the realm of like a military branch or a paramilitary police.

And that is what they're doing in Chicago.