EL PASO, Texas—Interim Chief for the El Paso Sector Walter Slosar has served in the Border Patrol under six different presidential administrations. Today, the border is the “most secure border we’ve ever had,” he said.  

Illegal border crossings have fallen from almost 1,000 a day in August 2022 to just 35 a day in July in the El Paso Sector, which includes the two westernmost counties in Texas—Hudspeth and El Paso—and all of New Mexico.  

While Slosar says he is proud that encounters have fallen so low, he is “also not satisfied.” 

The Border Patrol chief explained that an average of about nine illegal aliens are still managing to evade apprehension every day in the El Paso Sector.  

“Those are nine people that we don’t know who they are, [what] their intentions are, and so, we’re really focused on getting that number to zero,” Slosar said.  

“Criminal, foreign terrorist organizations, transnational criminal organizations, they’re still trying to profit” by sneaking people and drugs across the border, he explained. The change now, according to Slosar, is those criminals are running from

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