The Border Patrol has received a waiver to fill a “critical need” for female agents. According to Jeff Prather, a former federal law enforcement agent the need exists due to crossing of Muslim women across the border.
Appearing on the James T. Harris radio show, Prather explained that for years male Border Patrol agents in the remote deserts along the Mexico U.S. Border, have operated without the necessity of having female agents check illegal alien women and children before placing them in custody. Listen to the interview here.
According to Prather, agents in the field have said that they believe the “critical need” is due to the restrictions of Sharia Law. Sharia Law would prohibit a male agent from laying hands on a woman other than his wife. Agents have seen an increase in Other Than Mexican (OTM) border crossers and the recent border surge proved that even a child can cross into the country easily.
In the fall, Judicial Watch, a conservative organization, made the claim that “Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle borne improvised explosive devices.”
DHS responded to inquiries from PolitiFact about Judicial Watch’s claim; “There is no credible intelligence to suggest that there is an active plot by (ISIS) to attempt to cross the southern border.”
However, in September Representative Lou Barletta, of Pennsylvania, said at the hearing by the House Homeland Security Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee, “We know that terrorist networks have been using our porous southern border and a broken immigration system to enter the United States.”
On the same date, according to PolitiFact, during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, Arizona Senator John McCain, asked Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis Francis Taylor about recent reports of Twitter and Facebook exchanges in which ISIS “urged infiltration” across the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Yes, sir, there have been Twitter, social media exchanges among ISIL adherents across the globe speaking about that as a possibility,” PolitiFact quoted Taylor. “I’m satisfied that we have the intelligence and the capability at our border that would prevent that activity.”
One thing that most people can agree upon is that the agents of Border Patrol, defend the Border everyday to the best of their ability and to the extent the Obama administration allows.