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Border Patrol comes to aid of illegal immigrants being robbed, kills armed bandit

March 4, 2024 | | Print Article

Americans weren’t the only ones at risk regarding the border crisis as a new report confirmed a fatal incident amid increased “bandit activity.”

(Video: Fox News)

While President Joe Biden spent a long weekend at Camp David following a photo op visit to the U.S.-Mexico border to point fingers at Republican lawmakers, a group of armed bandits were encountered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s elite Border Patrol Tactical unit (BORTAC).

As Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin posted after confirmation from the Department of Homeland Security agency, “Per multiple CBP sources to me & @GriffJenkins, an elite Border Patrol BORTAC agent shot & killed a bandit who was seen robbing illegal immigrants in a remote area of San Diego sector this morning.”

“We’re told Border Patrol was responding to reports of ‘bandit activity’ in the Chula Vista area of operation and came upon a group of bandits robbing illegal immigrants who were walking to an area to surrender to Border Patrol. All of the bandits fled back to Mexico, except for the one that was killed,” he further detailed before indicating that no Border Patrol agents were hurt and that the images shared were from a previous encounter.

Specifically, Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens had shared the same images on Feb. 26 and explained, “USBP surveillance technology near Chula Vista, CA captured these images of armed bandits robbing several groups as they attempted to enter the country illegally. Yet another example of the dangers these criminals & smugglers pose to the public, the migrants, and our agents.”

Joining “Fox & Friends” Monday morning to react to the incident, National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told co-host Lawrence Jones that the bandit group encountered early Sunday was the same kind of “rip crew” that had been responsible for the Dec. 2010 murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.

“Usually when you confront them, there is going to be some sort of an encounter,” Judd expressed before highlighting how the latest incident was particularly brazen. “These people have become so emboldened that they are doing it right in front of our cameras.”

The conversation then switched to the broader issue of the ongoing border crisis of which estimates suggested over 8 million illegal entries had occurred since Biden was inaugurated in Jan. 2021. Among those who had entered during fiscal year 2024, which began Oct. 1, 2023, Owens had said as of Feb. 21 there had already been more than 6,400 apprehensions of foreign nationals with criminal convictions.

“That’s just what we know of,” reminded Judd who pointed out that Border Patrol did not have access to criminal records in other nations to reference and, by Owens’ estimation, of roughly 900,000 apprehensions in the same time frame, more than 120,000 “gotaways” had occurred.

Judd, who had joined former President Donald Trump in Eagle Pass, Texas Thursday in finding fault with the incumbent’s administration for the ever-increasing crisis that could be remedied through certain executive actions, concluded, “We could get this under control tomorrow and all it would cost us is proper policy.”

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