Troops at US-Mexico border a ‘colossal waste,’ Border Patrol union leader says

Border Patrol union leader Brandon Judd was initially supportive of the National Guard deployment to the Mexican border, but now he says it’s been a “colossal waste of resources,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

“We generally support the administration, but we’re not going to be cheerleading when things are not going well,” said Judd, the president of the National Border Patrol Council, which has 15,000 members.

What’s going wrong?
Judd said this deployment of troops to the border isn’t playing out the same as similar deployments under the...