Interim Chief for the El Paso Sector Walter Slosar has served in the Border Patrol under six different presidential administrations. Today, the border is the “most secure border we've ever had,” according to Slosar.
Illegal border crossings have fallen from almost 1,000 a day in August 2022 to just 35 a day in July in the El Paso Sector, which includes the two western most counties in Texas, Hudspeth and El Paso, and all of New Mexico.
While Slosar says he is proud that encounters have fallen so low, he is “also not satisfied.”
The cartels are digging tunnels under the border wall, using drones to monitor the location of Border Patrol agents, and looking for weak points along the border to cross. But as the cartels employ new tactics, Slosar says Border Patrol is also adapting and working to employ new technology to further “domain awareness.”
New technology, such as cameras, sensors, and aerial assets, are key to combating the current threats at the border, Slosar explained.
“We're going to continue, as long as we possibly can, to put people on planes to get them out of the country,” Slosar said, noting that if one illegal alien is allowed to stay after crossing the border illegally, more will come.
“ We have to make sure that we take a good look at what's going on across the border, policy wise, infrastructure wise, strategic communication wise, and make sure that it is known … that you cannot enter the United States illegally,” Slosar said, adding, “it's a national security problem. It's our biggest national security problem.”
The Daily Signal discusses the current situation at the border, and the coming changes, with Slosar at the border wall in El Paso, Texas.
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