{"id":21701,"date":"2019-07-11T16:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21701"},"modified":"2019-07-11T16:07:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:07:52","slug":"cbp-the-real-heroes-of-the-border-crisis-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/07\/11\/cbp-the-real-heroes-of-the-border-crisis-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"CBP: The Real Heroes of the Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Washington Post<\/a><\/em> recently featured an article discussing the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s surge shelters for unaccompanied alien children<\/a> (UAC). The piece was clearly intended to deride U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) \u2013 which the Post<\/em> inevitably casts as a callous abuser of children \u2013 and laud private contractors who furnish lighted soccer fields and pizza parties<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the paper\u2019s depictions\nof the parties involved are so cartoonish that they fall utterly flat. For\nexample, the Post<\/em> quotes one Kevin Dinnin,\nthe head of BCFS Health and Human Services (BCFS), a company that runs migrant\nshelters for the federal government. According to Mr. Dinnin, \u201cI hate this\nmission. The only reason we do it is to keep the kids out of the Border Patrol\njail cells.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the intent is, obviously,\nto cast Dinnin as a latter day Mother Theresa, that portrayal falls totally\nflat when it rubs up against cold, hard reality. According to the Post,<\/em> BCFS will be paid $50 million for\nthe first few weeks it is in charge of running the Carrizo Springs, Texas,\nshelter. The company could be paid up to $300 million. And Dinnin earns approximately\n$500,000 per year. That\u2019s hardly the stuff of humanitarian self-sacrifice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BCFS describes itself<\/a> as, \u201ca global system of health and human services non-profit organizations with locations and programs throughout the U.S. as well as Eastern Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa.\u201d But, despite its nonprofit status, its government contracts<\/a>, earnings<\/a> and salaries<\/a> seem to indicate that it is not immune to a little good old fashioned capitalism: a 2017 independent financial auditor\u2019s report showed approximately $300 million in total revenues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Border Patrol is regularly demonized by the Washington Post<\/em>, New York Times<\/em>, Los Angeles Times <\/em>and other blatantly politicized news outlets. But the reality is that Border Patrol agents, whose average salary<\/a> is roughly $60,000 per year, regularly put themselves in harm\u2019s way<\/a> to save<\/a><\/em> lost or stranded migrants. They also act as \u201cbabysitters and caretakers<\/a>\u201d to UAC\u2019s apprehended at the border, even though neither of those functions comes within their job description. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, during the Obama administration\u2019s own UAC crisis<\/a>, Border Patrol agents were required to work a day of mandatory overtime each week, in order to \u201cfeed, monitor and interact\u201d with migrant kids. And CBP put out a call for any agents with child care, juvenile teaching or juvenile counseling experience in order to deal with rampant diseases, sexually active teenagers and behavioral problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who are the real heroes in this\nongoing tragedy? Most regular Americans would point to the men and women of CBP\nwho continually step up to handle crises, even in the absence of\nHollywood-level compensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post recently featured an article discussing the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s surge shelters for unaccompanied alien children (UAC). The piece was clearly intended to deride U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) \u2013 which the Post inevitably casts as a callous abuser of children \u2013 and laud private contractors who furnish lighted soccer fields<\/p>\n

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