
The head of the U.S. Border Patrol called illegal immigration a national security threat, saying that the high number of known gotaways keeps him “up at night.”
Speaking with CBS News’s Face the Nation on Sunday, Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens warned that his agency is sometimes stretched thin, with 20,000 agents protecting nearly 2,000 miles at the southern border at all hours.
“[Cartels] dictate what the flow is going to look like,” Owens said. “We respond to it, and we try and get out in front of it and deny them the ability to use these areas, especially ones that we think are going to be dangerous for us and for the migrants.”
Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens calls the situation at the U.S. southern border a “national security threat.” He tells @camiloreports “what’s keeping me up at nigh …