Art Del Cueto - National Border Patrol Council Spokesman Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six, twenty three, our time here on Houston's Boring News.
Border Patrol is a lot happier place these days. Art
dell Quito joins US National Border Patrol Council spokesperson. It's
amazing how morale goes up when you let people do
their job right.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
It is. You know what's more amazing is, you know
people they point the fingers sometimes at unions and what
they do and what they don't do. And here you
had a union which is who I represent, that wanted
to work. That's what they were asking for. They were
asking to just you know, be be allowed to go
out there and work. You know, we had an administration
for four years that you know, processing is part of

(00:37):
the work as well. But the problem is, you know,
there was a lot of frustration. The morale was down
because imagine being you know, stuck in the processing center
doing asilent claims on individuals that you know don't have
a true asylum claim and at the same time you're
hearing censors and everything else coos in the background, also
knowing full well that that was the drug smuggling that

(00:58):
was going on at the entire time, and you want
able to respond.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's a horrible thing when you got
into border patrol for a reason, right, Art, I mean,
you do what the job was, and that's the job
you wanted to do. You weren't hired, absolutely, you weren't
hired to be babysitters. You weren't hired to be the
welcome wagon for the United States. You're hired to protect
the border.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Absolutely. And I think that's where the frustration was the
last four years. And obviously you look, it was from
day one that President Trump took over office. It was
almost like a switch. Even management, you know. I mean,
and we have some good managers. You know, I like
to pick on them every once in a while, but
you know, even management during the last four years, you know,
they were they stayed pretty quiet. If it wasn't for
the effort of the National Border prook Council, you know,

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and and and you know us speaking up, no one
really was speaking up for the agents at all.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, it seems to me too that during the Bide administration,
anybody that could retire did retire. Anybody who could get
a different job in law enforcement did get a different
job in law enforcement, or at least tried to. How
has that changed. Now you've got people who want to
become a part of border patrol again.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah. Absolutely, you know, the recruiting is up. You know,
there's individuals that are seeing the reality of what's going
on and that you have a president that backs you up.
So so things have changed. You know, there's laws that
are getting put into the books right now. You know,
something just went past Congress. We're waiting on the Senate,
and that was it was at that point it was
scary too at some time. You know, thankfully, you know

(02:25):
they've made the right decisions when it comes to agents'
retirements and things moving forward, because that's what it's going
to take. It's going to take, you know, us being
able to get the proper laws moving forward because you
just sit there and have changes and the agents realize them.
Arales different obviously, and there is changes because you have
somebody in leadership that wants the agents to work. But

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you know, you have to make sure that you have
the effective law changes or else you know, this can
turn around real quick with another election.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well I'll tell you what, art I hope, I hope
you get those changes that you need to keep doing
your job. And I'm very pleased to hear that morale
is so much better and that you've you've got people
who are applying for those jobs. Again, best of luck
to you.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Thanks for joining us, definitely man, Thank you for having
me on. Stay safe and God bless I

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Will Art del Quoto National Border Patrol Council