Former Border Patrol chief: Securing border ‘shouldn’t be political’

(NewsNation) — As the crisis at the southern border takes center stage on the campaign trail and in the Biden administration, former Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott says U.S. immigration policy “shouldn’t be political.”

Scott joined NewsNation’s “Morning in America” to discuss President Joe Biden’s handling of the migrant crisis and his time serving under several administrations.

“If he [Biden] reimplemented many of the programs that he terminated by executive action, if he just put those back in place, that would significantly reduce the flow across the border and let Border Patrol kind of take a breath,” Scott told NewsNation.

Biden is reportedly considering new executive action to try to reduce the number of asylum seekers at the southern border as agents are overwhelmed with rising migrant numbers.

“It really shouldn’t be political. The immigration aspect of it has always gotten some political far right, far left,” Scott said. “The Border Patrol’s job is to make sure everybody enters our home through a port of entry or the front door. It’s really that simple.”

Scott, who has served under former President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton, says Biden undid decades of border policy.

“The Biden administration really reversed 30 years worth of policy, not just the Trump’s policies, and opened up the entire border. So right now, basically, the entire Southwest border is almost the equivalent of a port of entry that massive numbers of people being arrested are being released into the United States,” Scott says.