June 21, 2018
By Vanessa Romo
A Texas sheriff (click here) has barred his deputies from taking on additional work as off-duty security at a recently built tent encampment intended to house migrant children separated from their parents at the border.
El Paso Sheriff Richard Wiles said he feared the assignment to oversee minors forcibly separated from their parents would fuel the current controversy over the practice and undermine trust between law enforcement and the people they serve.
"The Sheriff's Office will not be working at these facilities, as we don't support the current administration's position of separating children simply to discourage illegal immigration," he told Texas Monthly.
"Clearly, the outcry from the community would affect our ability to maintain the confidence and respect between the community we serve," Wiles told the El Paso Times. "It would impact our community policing efforts that we worked so many years to build."...
Ending crimes against humanity REQUIRES THE INDIVIDUAL to make a conscience decision to enforce morality. I feel bad for many of the Border Patrol officers that have no choice to carry out the crime. They would have to leave their jobs and/or simply go back to patrolling the border and reinstituting "Catch and Release."
The Border Patrol has had no formal training in recognizing human rights abuse of USA authority, how to handle such instances and who to turn to mitigate the wrongful authority.
THIS REASON ALONE is why government employees; local, state or federal are represented by organized labor. The union leaders should have received all this information and passed it on to their members and staged a "job action" which would return the US southern border to ordinary authority in conducting their work. The union should have told their members they needed to report for work and carry out their jobs as they always have, but, refuse to conduct any separation of children from their parents.
My understanding, besides the children already in facilities, the US Border Patrol has returned to ordinary duties. Right now, the children need supervision and care until they are matched to their parents with DNA support.
