October 2024

Dear America,

On November 5th you will select a new president to lead us.  The single most important factor when evaluating the candidates should be ensuring the safety and security of the United States.  Of the countless issues to consider, every one of them is dependent upon our national security. National security has many facets, but it does not exist without enforceable international borders. In this election, there is no need to speculate what each candidate might do.  When reviewing their records you can see both candidates have very clear, but distinctly different track records.

The Biden/Harris administration enacted policies that systematically dismantled a proven 27-year bi-partisan border security strategy that prevented crime, both at the border and in towns across America, through deterrence and consequences. The appalling results were immediate and will have lasting consequences. US Customs and Border Protection, the frontline of America’s defense against cartels and Human trafficking syndicates, was forced to pull law enforcement personnel from critical enforcement duties protecting the borders to cope with over 10 million illegal aliens. This record setting illegal immigration overwhelmed every aspect of border security.  Unfortunately, with the majority of our borders left unprotected, approximately two million illegal aliens and narcotics smugglers were observed but evaded apprehension, disappearing unchecked into your neighborhoods. Even more frightening are the unknown numbers that made it through in areas of the border completely unpatrolled.  Additionally, millions of aliens were intentionally released into the United States with a simple paper giving them a notice to appear in court at some future date, many years from now.

Pundits and politicians on both sides of the political spectrum continue to overcomplicate border security. Border security is simply the ability, and willingness, to know and control who and what enters our homeland. Similar to our personal homes, if we cannot control who and what enters our home then we have zero real security. Our nation is no different; border security is national security.

Immigration policy is not synonymous with border security. However, immigration policy and immigration law directly affect border security. Immigration policy can enable or destroy border security. Bottom line, as we have seen in the last three and a half years, immigration policy encouraging fraud and illegal entry, decimates our nation’s ability to know and control who, or what enters our homeland. Illegal immigration also erodes our legal immigration system and forces legal immigrants to the back of the line.  Families with relatives here in the United States, doctors, engineers, even legal migrant workers, are all negatively impacted by unfettered illegal aliens who were allowed to jump to the front of the line.   Additionally, when illegal aliens are released in significant numbers into the US, the incentivized follow-on illegal immigration will always exceed our nation’s ability to control it. Finally, consider the fact when discussing immigration policy, if we cannot, or will not control who is allowed to enter our homeland then any policy discussion becomes irrelevant.

Furthermore, transnational criminal organizations (TCO), commonly known as cartels, control illegal immigration to strategically distract and overwhelm US law enforcement. This tactic has been very successful over the last several years, as you have seen in the news reports highlighting the terrorists, murderers, rapists, violent gangs and record levels of fentanyl that made it into the US.   The TCOs have been able to operate with minimal risk of being apprehended while increasing their profits by billions of dollars, all courtesy of policies implemented by the Biden/Harris administration.

President Trump respected the experience of career border security professionals and listened to our advice. When border security experts explained to President Trump how illegal immigration empowers the cartels to control who and what enters our home, he listened and acted. The Trump administration supported policies and programs that reduced illegal immigration, instilled integrity into our legal immigration system and ensured that the US government was doing all we could to control who and what entered our homeland. The borders of the US were never more secure than they were during the Trump administration.

This same expert information, evidence, and advice was offered to the Biden/Harris administration. However, they chose to ignore the career border security experts and instead, under VP Harris’ watch, idealist political appointees with zero border security experience were empowered to implement disastrous and deadly border security policy for the United States. The devastating results have handed complete control of our border to the cartels, provided them with astronomical record profits, ballooned legal immigration backlogs, and have left millions of illegal aliens in the country.

The men and women whose signatures appear below, each an honorably retired career civil servant that specialized in border security, dedicated their careers to the protection of this great nation.  Most are not interested in engaging in any political actions other than voting but realized after witnessing the unravelling of the rule of law at our borders and the horrific impacts on our local communities with heinous central and south American gang crimes, and the terrible loss of life from the fentanyl crisis that this election is too important to stand on the sidelines. Campaign ads can portray anything. We encourage every American to take a lesson from law enforcement and simply follow the evidence of the last eight years. The first four resulted in the most secure border in history and the other has resulted in significant increases in the loss of life and record illegal immigration.

Assuming you care about border security as much as we do, the choice is clear. President Trump is the only candidate that we can trust to secure our nation’s borders.

Rodney Scott, Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol

R.P. Buck Brandemuehl, Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol

Thomas Homan, Director, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Mark Morgan, Former Acting Commissioner CBP, Former Chief, US Border Patrol

Matthew Hudak, Deputy Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol

Ronald S. Colburn, Deputy Chief-Retired, DHS/CBP, US Border Patrol

Aaron Heikte, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Michael S. Williams, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired U.S. Border Patrol

Chris Clem, Chief Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol

Kelly Good, Deputy Executive Director- Retired, US Border Patrol

Michael Sheehy, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent, Miami Sector, Retired

Joel Martinez, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Mark Haynes, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

John Roseborough, Senior Patrol Agent - Retired, US Border Patrol

Brian S. Hastings, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Jason Bell, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Matthew J. Roggow, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent - Retired, US Border Patrol

Brian Martin, Directorate Chief - Retired, U.S. Border Patrol

Joseph Banco, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent, New Orleans Sector, Retired

John Smietana Jr, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Barbara E. Matthews, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Alan F. Zeitvogel, (A) Division Chief LE Ops-Retired, US Border Patrol

Hector M. Regalado, Special Operation Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol

Michael J. Clark, Operations Officer – Retired, US Border Patrol

Irvin Ray Harris, Special Agent-Retired, USINS (former Border Patrol)

David J. McElheran, Border Patrol Agent-Retired US Border Patrol

Steven J. Anderson, Supervisory Air & Marine Agent-Retired, Air & Marine Operations

Victor J. Mancini, Assistant Chief – Retired, US Border Patrol

Genaro F. Miranda, Assistant Chief – Retired, US Border Patrol

Dennis W. Harmon, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol

Derrall Brown, Sector Intelligence Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Martin S. Byrum, Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer- ICE-Retired

Kevin L. Nix, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol

Bruce H. Roberts, Watch Commander-Retired, U.S. Border Patrol

Jose R. Martinez, Special Operations Supervisor U.S. Border Patrol

Patrick T. Murray, Assistant Field Office Director (Retired) ICE/ERO Seattle

Raul R. Valadez, Field Operations Supervisor (Retired) US Border Patrol

Jimmy F. Vance, Watch Commander-Retired, U.S. Border Patrol

Daniel D. Hann II, Patrol Agent in Charge (Retired), U.S. Border Patrol

David Espino, Operations Officer (Retired). U.S. Border Patrol

Darrel Walraven, Patrol Agent in Charge (Retired) U.S. Border Patrol

Jeffery Abrams, Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Brent Johnson, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

Roger Kemp, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge - Retired, U.S. Border Patrol

Daniel D. Doty, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge – Retired, US Border Patrol

Richard Ball, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Thomas Jenkins, Assistant Chief – Retired, US Border Patrol

Ashley Taylor, Special Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol

Blanca Flanagan, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

Jeff Snavely, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

M.G. Boone, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Gary Viens, Deputy Division Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol

Rafael I Cano, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol

Barbara Kermzner, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Jennie Marquez, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, CBP/OTD Artesia

Steve R. Martinez, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent –Retired, El Centro Sector

Kai Libby, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

Patrick M. Seeley, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

John W. Paisley, Associate Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol

Gilbertina Paisley, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol

Scott Zimmer, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Kimberly Young, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Travis Darling, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Jose M. Hernandez, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol

Jason A. Feldman, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent – Retired, U.S, Border Patrol

Michael E. Powell, Director – NBCC – CBP/USBP - Retired, U.S. Border Patrol

Tom McKenney, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

Dean Williams, Supervisory Air Interdiction Agent- Retired, US Customs and Border Protection

Matthew Whittaker, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent (Ret), US Border Patrol

Dorian LaPaglia, Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Johnny M. Meadors, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol-Headquarters

Jim Pilkington, Chief of Staff -Retired, DHS/ICE/ERO Targeting Operations Division

Fernando Grijalva, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

Kenneth Johnson, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Edward Harper, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent -Retired, US Border Patrol 

Jasn Heckler, Special Operations Supervisor- Retired, US Border Patrol

John Fogle, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent, US Border Patrol

Arvin E Sepulveda, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol

Jerry Knight, Branch Chief-Retired ICE, Homeland Security Investigation

Rafael Castañeda, Field Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol 

David Lambrix, Port Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection

Shawn Palmer, Special Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol 

Roy Dan Cason, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

Richard Cruz, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol 

Leo Ayala, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol

Joseph W Mason, Filed Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol 

Todd Bryant, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, U.S. Border Patrol

Glenn Fouty, Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol

Chuck Huthmaker, Chief Officer-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection

Anthony M. Fiorita, Senior Patrol Agent/ National Recruiter- Retired, U.S. Border Patrol

Brent Wies, Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer-Retired, USICE 

Hugo Ruthling, Special Agent, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement

Raul G. Garza, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol

Rafael Castaneda, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol           

John Wallace, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol

Jaime X. Garza, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol

J.P. Mansell, Director, CBP Firearms and Tactics- Retired, US Border Patrol

Arturo Torrez, Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol

Johnny Garcia, Watch Commander- Retired, US Border Patrol

Lino Giulio Mescia, Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol

William G. Justice, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol

Mike Lawler, Associate Chief- Retired, US Border Patrol

David Burke, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent K-9- Retired, US Border Patrol

Elias Herrera Jr., Field Operations Supervisor- Retired, US Border Patrol

Christopher I Ewing, Special Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol

Senorina Ewing, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

John Strauch, Patrol Agen in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

David Spear, Special Agent-Retired ICE,

Homeland Security Investigations

Stephen Henesy, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol

John W. Krause, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

Jared Browne, Special Agent-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Peter J. Forcelli, Deputy Assistant Director-Retired, Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco and Firearms

William E. Seward, Commander, USCG (Retired)

Robert Vazquez, Border Patrol Agent -Intelligence-Retired, US Border Patrol

Craig Olson, Port Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection

Kevin Wiley, Associate Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol

Steve Gulotta, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

John Esquivel, (A)Chief Patrol Agent -Retired, US Border Patrol

Marco Saltarelli , Special Agent-Retired, ICE/Homeland Security Investigations

Hilario Leal, Assistant Field Office Director-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Kyle Hobart, (A)Deputy Assistant Director-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Rene Dorantes, Senior Federal Air Marshal-Retired, Transportation and Security Administration

Thomas Feeley, Field Officer Director-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Christopher Short, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol

Duke Conchola, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

Brian Shawler, Supervisory Air and Marine Agent-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection

Frank Carrillo, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

Scott Moore, Director-investigations-Retired, Office of Air and Marine, CBP

Scott M Plasse, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent–Intelligence (Retired), US Border Patrol

David Krohn, Supervisory Borer Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Joe Vaiasuso, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Dick Graham Jr. Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

Robert V. Argento, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Gary L. Tharpe, Deputy Chief-Retired, Northern and Coastal Operations, US Border Patrol

Brian R. Armstrong, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Raymond V. Russell, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Michael Meshirer,

William C Doggett, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

Harry Beall, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Edgar J. Hernandez, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Louie Wayne Collins Jr. Division Chief -Retired, US Border Patrol

Michele Albertson, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Lance E. Martin, Special Operations Supervisor -Retired, US Border Patrol

Anthony R. Pool, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Thaddeus Cleveland, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol, Sheriff -Terrell Ct. TX

Christopher S. Myhra, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Michael L. Underdown, Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol

Lynne M. Underdown, Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol

James M. Obert, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol

Larry Blakemore, Senior Patrol Agent/Supervisory CBP Officer-Retired, US CBP

Mark Lieberman, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

George W. Gale, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Mary Olivares, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Bart Swindle, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Hunter Davis, Director-Retired, Air Marine Operations, US Customs and Border Protection

Martin Aguilar Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Retired, U.S Border Patrol

James Parker, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

John M. Sisk II, Special Agent/DHS Attache-Retired, Homeland Security Investigations

Martha Irwin, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Kenneth Burton, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Richard K. Moody, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

John Wagner, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Kurt R. Weismantel, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Arlin Kaul, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol

Lizdelia Lerma, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Herman Tiger Hunt Jr. Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Robert C Gilson, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Alex van Gils, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Patrick Straub, , Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Rosendo Hinojosa, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Marion Leon Stroud Jr. Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

James R. Herrick, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

David M. Shipley, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Clark Messer, Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection

Logan Wayne Snider, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol

Richard Haynes, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol

Scott Gill, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Hermann Rivera, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

JoAnne Federico, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol

John Scott Tedford, Senior Patrol Agent, USBP. Brown Field

Greg N. Terrones, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-retired, US Border Patrol.

Arthur Contreras, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Rowel Smith, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

John A. Tedford, Field Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol

Tony Ortiz, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Kevin Orr. Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol

Gil Maza, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Robert J Carney, Supervisor-Retired, Air and Marine Operations, US/CBP

Bruce Busby, HSI Criminal Investigator, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Carlos Lopez, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol

Chris Wells, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Charles McLoughlin, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

John A. Lopez, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol

Jason Hallmark, Deportation Officer-Retired, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement

Jorge Arcinienga, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Eloisa L. Bejarano, Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

William Kirkman, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Richard F. Lopez, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Ted Stark, Supervisory Special Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Jesus Hernandez, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent, US Border Patrol

Terrence M. Donnelly, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Jose Del Campo Martin, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Freddy Medina, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Retired, US Border Patrol

Jesse Shaw, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

David P Ward, Resident Agent in Charge- Retired, DHS/Homeland Security Investigations

Bob Hood, Assistant Port Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection

Dana E. Graydon, Associate Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol

Paul Moran, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Richard Fisher, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol

Lisa Hoechst, Chief of Statt-Retired, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement 

Cliff Timmons, Deportation Officer, US Immigration and Enforcement

John G. Derrah, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, U.S. Border Patrol

David Maibaum, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, U.S. Border Patrol