A frustrated Border Patrol agent said the Harris-Biden administration has turned his job into a migrant concierge service — and he fears that the crisis at the besieged southern border is only going to get worse.
Zachary Apotheker, who has been a Border Patrol agent since 2020, told The Post that he misses what his job used to be — busting big drug loads, apprehending illegal crossers and protecting Americans.
“I don’t want to bring people into the country. That’s not what I signed up to do,” Apotheker, 31, said.
The agent, who has worked at both the southern and northern borders of the US, confessed that he has witnessed the mass catch-and-release of illegal migrants he says have been improperly vetted under President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Since January 2021, more than 8 million migrants have crossed the southern border — including killers, rapists, terrorists and gang members, such as those from the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.
More than 1.7 million “gotaways” have also illegally snuck over the southern border without being apprehended during the Biden administration, according to Border Patrol data.
Apotheker said the names of victims of violent migrant crime — including Kayla Hamilton, Laken Riley, Rachel Morin and Jocelyn Nungaray — now “haunt” him.
“I’m an apolitical person and I just want to do my job and protect this country,” the agent said.
“When I see people from another country coming here, getting resources beyond what the American citizen can get, that’s where I have to draw the line. And then they’re going out and committing crimes and we’re still not removing them and American citizens are being killed, women are being raped.”
Apotheker also raised concerns about the influx of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the border.
He said Border Patrol doesn’t document the “biographical information” of children under the age of 14.
“We don’t have any data on them and we’re not checking the addresses that we’re sending these children with these people to. And we’re not connecting these families. We have no actual proof other than the documents,” he said.
Several Border Patrol sources confirmed to The Post that they do not collect the biometric information for children under the age of 14.
As of May 2024, 291,000 migrant children who arrived in the US as unaccompanied minors were never given a court date before they were set free, making it nearly impossible to track them down.
Additionally, 32,000 children released with court dates failed to show in court between October 2018 to September 2023.
Apotheker said he’s willing to lose his job to speak out because he doesn’t want to be complicit in “something very bad” that could happen to the country as a result of the border free-for-all.
“I have I’ve seen the amount of people and it’s going to be bad. However bad you think it is now, it’s only going to be worse,” he said.
“I ain’t doing it no more. I don’t want to do it no more. I’m going to speak out and whatever happens, happens to me.”
