There are 180 additional trained agents marked as “inactive.”. If you so wish, you can get additional specialized training afterwards. They promote their own authoritarian agenda, including internet censorship, in alliance with the CIA, the FBI and sections of the military. The Trump administration is in a deep and unprecedented political crisis. You will be taught to value the most important knowledge that all BORSTAR agents share— teamwork. BORTAC agents also responded to the Atlanta, Georgia, federal penitentiary riots as well as to acts of civil unrest at various federal immigration detention facilities. if (window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener("message", function(event) { if(event.data.length >= 22) { if( event.data.substr(0, 22) == "__MM-LOCATION.REDIRECT") location = event.data.substr(22); } }, false); } else if (window.attachEvent){ window.attachEvent("message", function(event) { if( event.data.length >= 22) { if ( event.data.substr(0, 22) == "__MM-LOCATION.REDIRECT") location = event.data.substr(22); } }, false); }
Every agent is sniper certified. In 2007, BORTAC was placed under the command of the newly formed Special Operations Group (SOG), together with its sister group, the Border Patrol Search, Trauma and Rescue Unit (BORSTAR). When conducting operations, BORTAC personnel are also equipped with a Kevlar ballistic helmet and an armored assault vest. In his final press conference in the White House, he vouched for the political legitimacy of the incoming administration and declared that having won, “it is appropriate for [Trump] to go forward with his visions and his values.”.
Infections and deaths are spiraling out of control. An online meeting with Socialist Equality Party candidates Joseph Kishore and Norissa Santa Cruz. He was blocked in this effort by current and retired military officers, who felt the coup d’état had not been properly prepared and could spark an uncontrollable public backlash. The federal agents have used CS tear gas, rubber bullets, pepper bombs, flash bang grenades and sonic weapons that can do permanent physical damage against peaceful protesters. More often than not, they are the only rescue unit available in these border areas. To date, BORTAC agents have carried out operations in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco and Newark. Most of the time, they give aid to migrants who try to cross the borders illegally and end up getting injured because of the dangerous terrain which can also be home to wild animals. BORTAC is the tactical unit of the US Border Patrol, a branch of CBP. Since its inception BORTAC has steadily expanded its scope and mission capabilities, and is now a rapid response unit capable of executing both foreign and national level domestic operations.
The DHS has reportedly placed a total of 2,000 officers on standby for deployment around the country. Not a single prominent Democrat, including Biden, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, has denounced Trump’s measures for what they are—an assertion of dictatorial powers. Because of the increasing prevalence of smugglers wearing camouflage, BORTAC personnel will often, when operating in conjunction with Border Patrol or CBP Air and Marine Operations, wear similar uniforms to those of the unit with which they are operating. During the “war on terror,” BORTAC agents were deployed to Jordan, Iraq and Afghanistan. The Democratic Party’s complicity in Trump’s attacks runs much deeper than silence.
No to American fascism! International Committee of the Fourth International, Foreword to the German edition of David North’s, brutalized and illegally detained protesters. It marks a major escalation of the assault on democratic rights and the turn toward dictatorship in the US. BORTAC was used to raid the family’s home in Miami, Florida in order to seize the child for his return to Cuba. Workers and youth in the US and around the world have watched with horror in recent days as gangs of heavily armed men, wearing generic camouflage without unit insignias or name tags, brutalized and illegally detained protesters on the streets of Portland, Oregon. Furthermore, the fight against the Trump administration must be connected to the fight against social inequality, the destruction of social programs and infrastructure, the attack on jobs and wages, the persecution of immigrant workers, and the consequences of unending war, which threatens all of humanity.
In April 2000, the unit was utilized in the high profile case of six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez.
More recently, the agency was used in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The unit was founded in 1984 to put down protests by immigrants at Immigration and Naturalization Service detention facilities. Since February of this year, the Trump administration has been mobilizing BORTAC to carry out immigration round-ups in 10 cities where local governments have ordered police not to fully collaborate with federal immigration agents in detaining and deporting immigrants and carrying out immigration raids. [6], In December 2010, BORTAC Agent Brian Terry was killed while pursuing members of a gang that operated along the border of Mexico and Arizona. First of all, you need to be a full-fledged Border Patrol Agent for two years before you can be considered.