Score one for Donald Trump. For the first time in its history, the National Border Patrol Council, representing about 16,500 border patrol agents, has endorsed a presidential candidate.
“Unlike his opponents, Donald Trump is not a career politician, he is an outsider who has created thousands of jobs, pledged to bring about aggressive pro-American change, and who is completely independent of special interests,” the AFL-CIO affiliated group stated. “We don’t need a person who has the perfect Washington-approved tone, and certainly NOT another establishment politician in the W.H. Indeed, the fact that people are more upset about Mr. Trump’s tone than about the destruction wrought by open borders tells us everything we need to know about the corruption in Washington.”
However you slice it, this historic first endorsement by this labor group is a major political accomplishment.
“This endorsement represents a total rejection of the corrupt politicians who have allowed transnational gangs and cartels to terrorize American communities,” said Trump in a statement.
Trump has regularly cited border security as his top campaign issue, saying that he’ll build a “fantastic wall” on the border, which Mexico will pay for, along with the deportation of the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.