I don’t know why some people think that being a helicopter parent is a healthy way to raise children. Not a good way to teach responsibility. I would have hated to have parents constantly looking over my shoulder.
If I were a student, I’d want to get a tour of the school boiler room. I can remember as a kid wanting to see this forbidden room with the big pipes twisting all over the place, and the strange noises that came from there. As an adult, maybe a hike to a rock hounding area, have a contest of sorts to see who can finds the most interesting rock…what kid doesn’t like rocks? But if I was Mr Reed, I’d probably want to go to the library so I could hide in the stacks and let the poor librarian deal with the kids.
Retired San Diego Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke said he was instructed by the Biden administration to not publicize arrests of illegal border crossers identified as “Significant Interest Aliens” with ties to terrorism.
Heitke testified before a U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Wednesday about how Biden-Harris “open border policies have undermined our safety and security.”
Prior to the Biden-Harris administration, the sector averaged 10 to 15 SIAs per year. “Once word was out that the border was far easier to cross, San Diego went to over 100 SIAs in 2022, way over 100 SIAs in 2023 and more than that this year,” he said.
The “open border policies” and “the fact that so many illegal aliens were being released into the United States spread worldwide very quickly,” he said, resulting in an unprecedented influx of illegal entry into the country.
The result was “80% to 90%, sometimes 100% of the agents on duty [were taken] away from” the southwest border. There were miles of the border unmanned in Texas, Arizona and California, he said, where there was “no agent presence for weeks and months at a time.”
“We have no idea who and what entered our country over this time. Throughout 2022 and 2023, I sent agents to Texas and Arizona to count gotaways. Those sectors could not even put enough agents in the field to see what they had missed.”
With their agents being pulled from the field, Heitke and others said Americans were unsafe and transnational criminal organizations were exploiting the open border to smuggle people and an unprecedented amount of fentanyl.
I don’t know why some people think that being a helicopter parent is a healthy way to raise children. Not a good way to teach responsibility. I would have hated to have parents constantly looking over my shoulder.