Border Patrol Agents Working Normally During Government Shutdown

Border Patrol says they are operating normally during the federal government shutdown. Roughly 20 thousand Border Patrol agents are working as they wait for the back pay from the end of the current shutdown. Commissioner Rodney Scott told Border Report that agents continue to report for duty and protect America regardless of the failures in the legislative branch and the politics in Washington. Scott says the men and women of CBP should never be treated as pawns in political games, and the gridlock in Congress is forcing thousands of agents to risk their lives without pay, even as assaults against officers have skyrocketed.