Trump policy on border jumpers empowers use of ‘maximum consequences,’ border agent tells Fox
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SanDiegoSectoractingChiefPatrolAgentJeffreyStalnakertoldFoxNewsDigitalthatmigrantsattemptstocrossthebordernowfaceseriousconsequencesifcaught.
SanDiego—ThechangeinadministrationfromPresidentJoeBidentoPresidentDonaldTrumphasopenedupstrongerenforcementpossibilitiesforU.S.CustomsandBorderProtection(CBP)agents,theagentinchargeofakeysectoralongthesouthernbordertellsFoxNewsDigital.
“Wehavechangedfromapostureofcatch-and-releasetoprovidingmaximumconsequencestothegreatestextentpossibleforanyoneandeveryonewhocrosses,”SanDiegoSectoractingChiefPatrolAgentJeffreyStalnakertoldFoxNewsDigital.
ThecommentscomeastherehasbeenaseeminglyovernightchangeinthesituationattheU.S.southernborder,withCBPdatashowingthatorderapprehensionsinFebruaryhitanearly25-yearlow,whileencounterswithillegalmigrantsdippedtojust30,000inFebruary,anumberthatwasover130,000duringthesametimeperiodin2023and2024.
Thatrealityhas