Border Patrol Agent: ‘Our Hands Are Tied, if I Don’t Allow Them to Cross ... I Am Going to Lose My Job’

CULVER (on camera): “What do you think this executive order is not going to do anything?”
BORDER PATROL AGENT: “Well it only took him what, three years and seven months?”
CULVER (voice-over): “In a rare encounter, we meet a Border Patrol agent eager to vent. He asks us to mask his identity worried he’ll be fired for talking so openly.”
BORDER PATROL AGENT: “It was a job you did take pride in. Secure the border, we didn’t have to babysit.”
CULVER (on camera): “Does it frustrate you when you hear that, when you hear the narrative like, why aren’t Border Patrol doing anything and —“
BORDER PATROL AGENT: “Our hands are tied. If I don’t allow them to cross they call and complain, now I’m in trouble. Now I’m going to lose my job.”
CULVER (voice-over): “He blames the current administration, but isn’t any more hopeful with the alternative.”
BORDER PATROL AGENT: “I really don’t like our two candidates.”