Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz Reveals He Never Spoke With Biden or Harris During Tenure About Border Crisis (VIDEO)

Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz (Screenshot: CBS News)

In an interview on “60 Minutes” with Cecilia Vega, former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz disclosed that throughout his tenure under the Biden regime, he never once spoke with either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris regarding the escalating border crisis.

Ortiz, who served as chief from August 2021 through May 2023 and was deputy chief under President Trump, recently retired after more than three decades with the agency.

During the interview, an evidently frustrated Ortiz shared his concerns about the operational challenges and political decisions affecting border security.

“When agencies are making a decision based upon politics or whether they’re gonna get media coverage, hey, we’re gonna put all our personnel in this two-mile stretch. What about the other 200 miles?” Ortiz said while attacking Abbott.

Ortiz expressed his frustration with the Biden regime’s handling of border security, highlighting the lack of direct communication with top White House officials.

“I’ve never had one conversation with the president. Or the vice president, for that matter. And so I was the chief of the border patrol. I commanded 21,000 people. That’s a problem,” Ortiz said.

In 2021, Biden appointed Kamala Harris as the border czar to lead efforts to stop illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border.

In the short time since Kamala Harris has been supposedly in charge of the crisis at the border, half a million people have illegally crossed into America. That number is absolutely staggering, and it is growing every single day.

Ortiz also touched upon the challenges faced by the border patrol, including the need for better cooperation with countries in Central and South America and

Source: The Gateway Pundit