During a recent interview with Fox News Digitals, National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez confirmed that “morale is through the roof” now that President-elect Donald Trump is returning to the White House and will crack down on illegal border crossings.
“We’ve received hundreds of calls, texts, emails, just saying how happy the agents are,” Perez told Fox News Digital.
“There are a lot of agents that had originally said that they would retire if President Trump did not win. And now those same agents are saying they’re going to hold back on their retirement because they want to serve under this administration again, because they know exactly how it was during this first administration, and they know this one’s going to be even better,” he said.
Perez says Trump’s return to the Oval will help with the Border Patrol’s flagging recruitment problem.
“We’ve always had a recruiting problem. And so right now, with President Trump coming into office, a lot of people are going to want to do this job. A lot of people have shown interest previously, but they were hesitant to apply and work for the previous administration,” he said. “So under Trump, we’re going to have a good amount of recruits to choose from.”
Perez says that agents receive greater job satisfaction under Trump because they know that the people they catch will be removed “instead of allowing them to abuse our asylum system.”
Watch the interview below:
