Border Patrol Could Face Shortage of Agents Over Vaccine Mandate

Border Patrol BORSTAR agents load an injured patient into a waiting helicopter in the Imperial Sand Dunes near the U.S.-Mexico border, Calif., on Nov. 30, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

While hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants cross the southern border in the worst immigration crisis in the nation’s history, the federal government could soon face a shortage of United States Border Patrol agents due to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate deadline on Nov. 22.

President Joe Biden told CNN’s Anderson Cooper at a recent CNN town hall that law enforcement officers should be fired if they don’t get the vaccine. When Cooper asked, “Should police officers, emergency responders be mandated to get vaccines? And if not, should they be—stay at home or let go?” Biden responded, “Yes, and yes.”