As president Donald Trump The efforts on the border security and deportation, agents with the customs and protection of borders (CBP) and immigration and customs implementation (ICE) are under alarmingly sophisticated threats of their safety, the expert tells Fox News Digital.
“Cartps are losing their jobs. Meetings on the border are the lowest in decades, and cartels will not only quietly give up this job,” Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Center of the Heritage Foundation Foundation, said Fox News Digital.
Comments come after the weekend has been reported CBP agents He will no longer wear bodywork during field operations, a response to a post on Reddit, claiming that people could accompany people who wear cameras with an app called Ble Radar, which uses Bluetooth to scan for such devices in a circle of 100 meters.
This division is shown by President Trump and Border Patrol. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images and Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
“Until the end of an investigation and risk relief, all agents will reduce the use of their BWC [body worn cameras] until further notice. Additional guidelines and information will be distributed as received, “the Directive announced over the weekend.
While tracking agents is presented as a way Help immigrants Find the soft places on the border, also opened the threat agents of their safety, including improvised explosive devices.
Cartps could also use monitoring information to endanger the lives of agents, Ries noted.
“It is possible that they could use cameras … The interception of low levels to monitor agents, harm agents and attack agents,” Ries said.
Ries also noted that cameras played an important role in protecting field agents from false claims of abuse, providing key evidence that he would not have now after meeting migrants.
Ice agent is overseen by hundreds of asylum seekers who are processed after entering the federal Jacob K. Javits on June 6, 2023 in New York. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
“I guess the number of assertments of abuse will jump to use this lack of use of the camera,” Ries said.
When it comes to cartels, Ries noted that warnings were sent that cartels could use shooters on the other side of the border to target agents.
“I just saw a letter about the potential use of the shooter on the Mexican side to shoot our agents and our army, so we must assume that it is planned and that you use countermeasures against it,” Ries said.
Ries also noted that cartels in the past have effectively used unmanned aircraft to monitor CBP agents, although this threat could be lower with an increased military presence on the border.
Except threats from the cartelCBP agents are also facing the dangers of US borders, Ries noted, pointing to the leakage of ice attacks as an example of something that recently threatened agents.
The agent of the American border patrol stands on a cliff looking for migrants crossing the border wall near Sasabe in Arizona. (Salwan Georges/Washington Post via Getty Images)
“That is undergoing an ambush agent,” Ries said. “One thing is that aliens run away, so when the ice appears, there is no one there … It would be worse if the aliens stay here and attack ice agents, that’s the risk.”
Such leaks of planned operations and technological vulnerability could continue to be a threat to agents’ safety because those who opposed Trump’s agenda conducted by conducted implementation are trying to undermine these plans, Ries said.
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Suppression of such threats will not only take consciousness and smart tactics during surgery, but will also help the congress to ensure funds to equip agents from enough resources to combat danger.
“It’s technology, equipment, it’s an intel and staff … They can’t patrol themselves, they need to work together,” Ries said. “The Congress works, although too slow, getting resources for CBP and Ice to continue to carry out these mass deportations. The Congress must hurry.”
