Latino Border Patrol Agents Deny They're Arresting Their 'Own Kind' in CNN Segment [View all]
Source: MEDIAite
Dec 26th, 2025, 12:55 pm
Latino Border Patrol agents hit back at accusations they are arresting and deporting their “own kind” in a CNN segment on rising interest in Border Patrol recruitment under President Donald Trump.
CNN senior national correspondent David Culver was granted rare access to the Border Patrol Academy in New Mexico for a Friday segment that ran on The Situation Room. According to CBP, applications are up 70% from a year ago and more than half of the agents serving on the southern border are Hispanic.
Juan Peralta, a 20-year-old Border Patrol recruit, told Culver he’s received backlash for his decision to join CBP, especially as they have taken part in ongoing ICE deportation operations. “They’re kind of like, wow, you’re starting pretty young or how do you feel about arresting your own kind,” Peralta said about reactions to him joining.
“How do you answer that when you hear that?” Culver asked. “They didn’t come in the right way so they aren’t my kind,” Peralta, whose father was an immigrant, said.
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He'll learn real fast how this country works.
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