U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said during an interview this week that in his nearly thirty years serving in the agency‚ the border has never been secure. Owens made the remarks during an interview Martha MacCallum about the U.S. Senate’s recently unveiled controversial border bill‚ which has received widespread pushback from Republicans. As the head of the Border Patrol‚ Owens is responsible for trying to convince members of Congress to provide the agency with the tools and laws that it needs to succeed. “There are definitely aspects of that bill that I liked for the agency‚” he said. “And there’s aspects of it that‚ of course‚ I didn’t.” When asked if the bill would have secured the southern border‚ Owens responded: “In the better part of 28 years‚ I have never seen a situation where I as a law enforcement professional would have said the border is secure.” “We need more people‚ we need more agents on the line‚ they need more force multipliers in the way of technology‚ equipment‚ and infrastructure that doesn’t just help them do their job better‚ it helps keep them safe‚” he said. “There are aspects of this bill that would have added additional hundreds of border patrol agents to our rank and file that would have given us more technology‚ would have given us more equipment infrastructure. Of course I’m going to be supportive of that.” He said that he was “disappointed” in Congress’ inability to get an acceptable border package passed and stressed that by not doing so‚ they were putting the country in grave danger. “The mission of the Border Patrol is not to process asylum seekers — we are dealing with this migrant influx that really should be applying for entry into the country through an established port of entry‚” he said. “And when they don’t do that‚ what it does is number one‚ it puts them in danger because it puts them in the hands of smugglers and cartels who extort from them‚ they exploit them on a very dangerous‚ dangerous journey. The other thing that it does is it pulls us off of task. While we’re busy doing this‚ the cartels are taking full advantage of it somewhere else along the border to bring in who knows what and who knows who. These are the types of things like fentanyl‚ like other hard narcotics‚ hardened criminals‚ that do represent a danger to our community.” He said that the agency needs more technology‚ infrastructure‚ equipment‚ and manpower. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP He said that he has no idea how many illegal aliens are evading law enforcement and escaping into the U.S. every month because “we don’t have situational awareness‚ there’s just so much at the border that we don’t have control of and [places] we’re not at right now.” “So I know what we see‚ what we’re able to to actually capture‚ and it’s in the hundreds of thousands‚” he said. “And those are the numbers that really‚ for us‚ keeps us up at night because if you know that all you need to do is turn yourself in to the Border Patrol and go through the process‚ what possible reason would you have for wanting to evade capture and put yourself in danger to cross through the desert or be in a stash house or lock yourself in the back of a tractor trailer? Could it be that those are the folks that probably have criminal intent‚ that have bad intent‚ that represent a possible threat to the people of this country? That’s the kind of thing that keeps us up at night.” When he was asked if the border bill would have “had a good impact and turning that situation around‚” he responded: “If it allowed us to hold those people in custody until they were actually removed and it a delivered a consequence‚ then yes‚ it absolutely would have.” WATCH: WATCH: @USBPChief Jason Owens: "In the better part of 28 years‚ I have never seen a situation where I as a law enforcement professional would have said the border is secure…" Owens on gotaways: "There’s so much of the border that we don’t have control [of]… It's in the… pic.twitter.com/9qH3NWzybB — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 7‚ 2024

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In the sad annals of Trump Derangement‚ perhaps the bizarre vengeance porn fantasies of New York magazine's Ankush Khardori stands alone in coming from a very very dark place. The typical sufferer of TDS might hope for the imprisonment of Donald Trump and leave it at that. In the case of Khardori he went full mental jacket on Monday in that magazine's Intelligencer section with an over-3500-word diatribe dripping with Trump hate in which he fantasized in extreme detail what imprisonment for the President would look like as you can see in this unhinged missive "What Happens‚ Exactly‚ If Trump Is Sentenced to Prison?" [Image is also their imagination.] Above Khardori's overlong rant disguised as an article is a fantasy picture of Trump's Bureau of Prisons identity card. Khardouri even has Trump's future prison picked out for him which he describes in excruciating detail. As you read these asylum worthy Khardori rants that follow you can almost hear echoes  from one of the most famous of The Far Side cartoons screaming "Just Plain Nuts!" The federal prison camp in Pensacola‚ Florida — an all-male minimum-security facility that currently holds about 500 convicts — is an eight-and-a-half-hour drive from Mar-a-Lago‚ not far from the border with Alabama. The complex contains 20 buildings‚ a track for jogging or walking‚ and designated recreational areas for inmates to play a variety of sports‚ including basketball‚ volleyball‚ soccer‚ and tennis. The prison has housed a variety of white-collar offenders‚ including former New York congressman Chris Collins (who was serving time for insider trading before being pardoned by Trump)‚ and it is currently home to former reality-television star Todd Chrisley‚ who was sent there after being convicted of financial crimes. But wait! Khardori is far from finished in his description of the Pensacola prison or FPC Pensacola as he informs us. FPC Pensacola‚ as it is known‚ is a leading contender for the prison that would house Trump. The process of selecting a facility for a convicted felon usually begins in the Designation and Sentence Computations Center of the Bureau of Prisons in Grand Prairie‚ Texas‚ where a specialist reviews the incoming prisoner’s file in order to generate a score that correlates to different levels of security — ranging from minimum- to high-security facilities. The relevant inputs include the nature of the offenses in generic terms (in Trump’s case‚ fraud and obstruction)‚ the defendant’s criminal record‚ as well as his age‚ education level‚ and history of violent behavior or drug and alcohol abuse. The BOP is supposed to place each inmate in a facility that is reasonably close to where he will be released; in Trump’s case‚ that would presumably be Mar-a-Lago‚ which Trump designated as his legal residence in 2019. Naturally‚ all of this is just too good for Trump‚ who's somehow comparable to terrorists: The idea of Trump serving time in a place like FPC Pensacola‚ with its open-air amenities and mild climate‚ might be disappointing to people who would prefer to see him in the sort of remote‚ high-security facility that houses terrorists‚ but it would be replete with indignities for the former president. Minimum-security prisons are still prisons. “You’re still not free to go wherever you want. You still have people telling you where to go‚ when to go‚ what have you‚” Hurwitz told me. “You don’t have your freedom.” But what if the courts sentence Trump to home confinement rather than the exact prison that Khardori envisioned? Not to worry! He has game planned that contingency down to the smallest detail including ankle bracelets at Mar-a-Lago. The standard methods of federal home confinement involve an ankle bracelet on the convict‚ which alerts a probation officer if he leaves a designated area. The traditional ankle bracelet model tends to be “challenging” when the defendants “have large residences‚” Chris Maloney‚ the former chief U.S. probation officer in the district of New Jersey and the district of Massachusetts‚ told me. And now for a big surprise. Ankush Khardori is not only a contributing editor at New York magazine but is also a contributing writer for Politico which wants the public to believe it is a professional periodical about politics. This begs the question over whether Politico has at least minimal mental health vetting for its writers.