Ex-Border Chief Claims: ‘I Was Told’ to Move Migrants ‘Out of the Sight of the Media’

Retired Chief Border Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke knew what his orders were.

“I was told to move them out of the sight of the media,” Heitke said, referring to migrants at the southern border trying to reach the U.S.

Heitke testified to that before the House Homeland Security Committee. He also said the Biden-Harris administration tried to cover up the crisis at the border, the Washington Examiner reported.

Heitke retired last Summer as a patrol agent with the San Diego, California, region.

He testified on Wednesday, saying Biden’s administration would not allow him to speak with the media on certain matters involving the illegal 🛂Immigration crisis.

“Each time we asked for help in dealing with a new issue, it fell on deaf ears. At times in San Diego, we had 2,000 or more aliens sitting in between the fences asking to turn themselves in,” Heitke said.

Heitke pointed to many instances when he believed the Biden-Harris administration intentionally tried to conceal how bad the situation was from the public. In January 2021, the Biden administration stopped deportations and put an end to an agreement that had asylum-seekers wait in Mexico and not released in the United States.

As such, Heitke said fewer illegal immigrants were being returned to their home country and were staying in the U.S.

“For the first time in my 25 years in under five different administrations, whether through neglect or on purpose, I saw a large-scale lapse in our ability to return people to their country of origin,” he said. “The inability to send people home meant that most people being arrested for illegal entry would either have to be detained or released.”