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Border Patrol Union Leaders Vote "No Confidence" in Chief Aguilar

By Amy Isackson / Border Reporter,  KPBS Public Broadcasting
Published April 23, 2007 at 1:26 PM PDT
This story was published more than 16 years ago.

The leader of the National Border Patrol Union says his group has lost confidence in U.S. Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar. And they say the Chief should resign. KPBS reporter Amy Isackson has the st

Border Patrol Union Leaders Vote "No Confidence" in Chief Aguilar

The leader of the National Border Patrol Union says his group has lost confidence in U.S. Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar. And they say the Chief should resign. KPBS reporter Amy Isackson has the story.

Border Patrol Union President T.J. Bonner says more than 100 union leaders cast a unanimous vote of “no confidence” in Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar. Bonner says they’re dissatisfied for many reasons.

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Bonner : The failure to back up men and women who are out there doing their jobs and leadership of the Border Patrol coming out and declaring that the borders are secure when it is obvious they’re not.

Border Patrol officials say the number of illegal crossings has dipped during the last many months due to beefed up border security.

Bonner says the dip simply means border patrol agents are catching fewer people. He says Border Patrol leaders are using the numbers to push President Bush’s political agenda that includes immigration reform.

Bonner says top border patrol leaders should be politically neutral.

The Border Patrol Union represents about 11,000 border patrol agents nationwide.

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Amy Isackson, KPBS News.

Amy Isackson
Amy Isackson was the border reporter at KPBS from 2004 to 2011. She covered breaking news and feature stories on California-Mexico border issues and immigration, for local and national broadcast. Amy got her start in public radio by pitching a series of stories about rural New Zealand - horse dentistry and sheep sheering - to Radio New Zealand's "Country Life" program. She then worked with Peabody Award-winning radio producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, to help create the Sonic Memorial, a series of stories on the World Trade Center before, during and after 9/11. Amy's work has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California and Nevada, the California Chicano News Media Association, and the San Diego Press Club. She won the Sol Price Prize for Responsible Journalism in 2009 from the Society of Professional Journalists for her story about high school students smuggling people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Prior to venturing into the wonderful world of public radio, Amy worked for Yahoo! Inc. for nearly five years as an editorial surfer, associate producer and broadcast communications manager. She majored in Latin American History at Williams College. She grew up in San Diego and made frequent trips south of the border.
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