A “beef” between two Homeland Security Department supervisors may have contributed to the death of an illegal immigrant and delayed the rescue of a Border Patrol agent who later died, according to a whistleblower complaint.
The whistleblower is one of the two supervisors. He ran Customs and Border Protection’s air unit in Deming, New Mexico. He said a more senior official in El Paso regularly blocked his team from making rescue flights and instead deployed a unit farther from the scenes whose pilots lacked knowledge of the terrain.
In July 2020, the whistleblower said, the Deming unit was ready to respond to a migrant’s 911 distress call and figured it could locate the man “within a short period of time.” Instead, higher-ups in El Paso denied the flight and the migrant was found dead a day later.
A month earlier, a distress call came in about a Border Patrol agent who was undergoing CPR from fellow agents. The Deming unit was closest, but the whistleblower said El Paso supervisors sent a unit an additional hour away.
By the time the other unit arrived, the agent had died.
The Office of Special Counsel, the federal agency that protects whistleblower rights, revealed those details last week in a public filing that chided CBP for its weak response to the allegations.
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