Border Patrol Whistleblower
A U.S. Border Patrol agent has described the Port Angeles station as a "black hole" where agents have "no purpose, no mission." Agent Christian Sanchez said he declined overtime pay because he hadn't been doing any work; and his bosses responded by suggesting he needed psychological help.
Two days ago he made a public statement in Washington, D.C. at a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Transparency, which works for more openness in government. Sanchez said:
“The worst fraud on taxpayers is that we are getting paid overtime not to work.”
He said when he first started here:
“I noticed it was common practice for everyone to get paid overtime not to work. Back then there were about 24 agents and our entire station was receiving at least two hours of Administratively Uncontrolled Overtime” and that his bosses “want to create their own kingdom. The spending is to expand bureaucratic turf, not to protect our nation.”
You can find the Washington Post story Here.
Two days ago he made a public statement in Washington, D.C. at a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Transparency, which works for more openness in government. Sanchez said:
“The worst fraud on taxpayers is that we are getting paid overtime not to work.”
He said when he first started here:
“I noticed it was common practice for everyone to get paid overtime not to work. Back then there were about 24 agents and our entire station was receiving at least two hours of Administratively Uncontrolled Overtime” and that his bosses “want to create their own kingdom. The spending is to expand bureaucratic turf, not to protect our nation.”
You can find the Washington Post story Here.
posted by Tom Harper at 7:52 PM
16 Comments:
Ah yes, the REAL Port Angeles comes shining through for the whole country to see.
Oh! Isn't the Washington Post read internationally?
Port Angeles is not the only northern border station looking to expand:
Erie Station- similar to Port Angeles in that it is separated from Canada by water.
Note: reports of the expansion at Erie include numbers of arrests out of that station:
http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100328/NEWS02/303269866
"The Border Patrol operations in Erie, nearly six years old, include more than 30 agents who apprehended 588 illegal immigrants in fiscal year 2008-09."
"The Border Patrol's apprehensions in the Erie area have grown steadily, from 332 in fiscal 2006-2007 to 588 in 2008-09 to 305 so far in 2009-10.
Of those apprehended so far this fiscal year, 136 were individuals found by other law enforcement agencies and turned over to the Border Patrol."
Why are the people of Pennsylvania provided with justification for their new US Border Patrol station- while the people of the Olympic Peninsula get news blackouts and a denied FOIA request?
Classic. Now watch the "Kill the Messenger" effect kick in. The problem is not the situation Agent Sanchez described - the problem is that Agent Sanchez described it in public.
Thank you for coming forward, Agent Sanchez. I truly wish you the best of luck in the future.
Back when we had 4 agents, I used to meet Canadian wetbacks all the time. Now, thanks to the jack booted green shirts, I haven't seen one in ages.
I, for one, welcome our new overlords with a single finger, each time I see them.
Back when that expansion talk came out I stated that this would be a great place for those that wanted to be stationed here and wait out retirement in a soft position.
A tip of the hat to the whistle blower.
Saw in the news that they fear a new recession is coming. No kidding? I wasn’t aware that the last one had died.
Those Canadian terrorists in Victoria certainly don't seem to be coming here in the numbers they were. I haven't talked to a Canadian in a bar in the last two years.
That's too bad, they are fun to drink and bullshit with.
You would think they would be more conscientiousness about spending our Chinese investor's money.
But, alas no.
Pretty quite over here.
Those Canadian terrorists in Victoria certainly don't seem to be coming here in the numbers they were. I haven't talked to a Canadian in a bar in the last two years.
That's too bad, they are fun to drink and bullshit with.
Aw Com'on Billy, you heard how tourism is doing just fine in Port Angeles. Those Canadians are still here, you just don't remember seeing them.
There's a hell of a lot of things I don't want to remember, hehehe
I'm looking forward to senility, hehehe
Pretty quite over here.
Yeah, Trolls have that effect.
OLYMPIA — The state Department of Natural Resources might pay a fine of $17,000 to another state agency in the wake of the death of a DNR worker from Beaver last winter.
I think it's rather silly for one state agency to fine another state agency, it's just moving our tax dollars around. Seems to me like the one agency is being greedy.
Just fix the problems and move on.
Yeah, Trolls have that effect.
Then again, everyone realized that just perhaps the BP is a gaggle of lazy wankers.
Someone has put up signs that say, "THANK YOU CHRISTIAN SANCHEZ" on a telephone pole near my house. I saw them and smiled, smiled, smiled. We should all post signs like that.
Thank you again Agent Sanchez. The same is going on in New Jersey offices and those who mention it are dead meat. If it's happening in these two offices I'll bet it's happening all over the country. This is what are tax dollars are going toward?
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