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{Border Enforcement Discussion} When God Made Border Patrol Agents
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When God Made Border Patrol Agents
God wasn't messing around when He made Border Patrol Agents. It isn't every day that a real BPA is born, and it is too often that they are lost in the line of duty. It is a rare person that can uphold the standard required to be considered a Border Patrol Agent. There are no bad Border Patrol Agents. There are only those wannabe's that are corrupt who infiltrated and pretended, but the truth is that they were never PA's. A real PA would never betray their brothers and sisters or the call to serve and protect this great Nation. It is the rarest combination of character, courage and compassion that is the essence of a Border Patrol Agent.
It is going up against insurmountable odds day after day, night after night facing the worst of the worst that this world has to offer, yet still showing compassion to those that they have to deal with in that environment. It is knowing the difference between a cold blooded killer and a poor farm worker just by the look in their eye, and treating each accordingly while never showing fear, and always being in control , even when complete chaos is occurring all around.
It is never letting each other down, and never backing down...from ANYTHING, because if THEY back down, there is no one else to stand up and fight. It is knowing that no matter how overwhelming the odds are, that they can never be defeated, because they will ALWAYS get back up and come back at the adversary. It is knowing that the adversary isn't quite sure what makes that that agent tick, and that constant sense of fear and uncertainty that the BPA instills. It is rushing into the most fearsome of situations imaginable, while all others are running for their lives, because SOMEBODY HAS TO GO IN THERE, and the PA WANTS to be that somebody. It is sacrificing personal agendas for the common good, and hurt marriages and kids who know that Mom or Dad have to miss again because they can't leave the post abandoned.
It is working to the point of exhaustion to catch that smuggler, child molester, rapist, murderer or other criminal only to be spat upon and called a racist by the very people that they are protecting. It is stopping to help the stranded motorist on the side of the highway, searching for that lost kid in the desert, responding to that domestic for the rural Sheriff who can't get there for an hour, and counseling the suicidal man who just caught his wife cheating on him. It is saving the life of a neighbor's choking infant, and going on to work as if nothing unusual had happened. It is jumping into a moving vehicle full of people left to crash by a smuggler and bringing it to a safe stop, risking life and limb as if routine. It is jumping into dangerous waters to rescue the ones who despise them, risking their lives. It is carrying a sick and injured man for miles through the desert, saving his life, and going home at the end of shift, just another day. It is being mocked at a checkpoint, disrespected by neighbors, maligned by the media, and manipulated by politicians endlessly, and still showing up and giving the job everything they have. It is always taking the high road, when the low is so much easier. It is living character and honor in all that they do, and sometimes it is about being betrayed by those pretenders who never deserved to wear the Green.
It is always being the underdog, and always overcoming the odds.....eventually. It is about making the impossible possible. It is about never quitting, never giving in, and always being there for each other. It is knowing that the PA beside you has faced down the giants alone and that together, you are invincible. It is telling those unbelievable stories, the ones that make the trainees shake their head and doubt, when the reality is that you don't have to embellish, because you have been there and done that. It is about all of these things but always, ALWAYS it is with humility.
Border Patrol Agents are the "Rudy" of law enforcement, but they KNOW that they will never be carried off the field....and they are good with that. Just give them the keys to the four by, and let them go to work. Never bet against them. You will lose.
When God made Border Patrol Agents, he wasn't messing around