Border Patrol Chief: Agents Forced To Serve As ‘Professional Child Care Providers’

Border Patrol agents stationed at the southern border are effectively working as “professional child care providers” — ordering baby wipes and warming up burritos — for thousands of unaccompanied alien children, the new chief of U.S. Border Patrol told the Senate on Wednesday.

That workload has put a strain on the Border Patrol’s ability to protect national security and conduct law enforcement tasks, Chief Mark Morgan told the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

“A lot of resources are dedicated to being professional child care providers at this point,” Morgan said during Wednesday’s hearing.

The influx of unaccompanied alien children — or UACs — is so large that a second processing center had to be opened in the Rio Grande sector, Morgan said.

“Each one of those processing centers takes about 100 to 120 agents to man, dedicated basically 100 percent to processing and taking care of the family units and UACs,” he testified.

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