American border patrol agents are furious after the Doge team of Elon Musk e -mailed them to ask them to justify their jobs.
It is unclear how many of the 19,357 employees of the agency received the message, but officers in Texas were surprised to see it on Saturday evening in their inbox.
'Answer this e -mail with Appox. 5 bullets of what you achieved last week and CC your manger, “reads communication with DailyMail.com.
“Deadline is this Monday at 11:59 PM Est.”
The Green-Geuniformed Immigration Agents have just survived the most difficult four years in the history of the agency and are working overtime while the understood department treated the greatest immigration in American history with nearly 8 million migrants arriving during the BIDEN administration, according to The new York Times.
“Working for the government is starting to get a joke,” said an agent in response to Musk -e -Mail.
Many Borderpatrouille agents were overwhelmed by the message because they are in the front line to protect the border, the best issue for President Donald Trump, and believe that they should be exempt from the madness of the doge, including dismissed and dismissed, that Other government influences agencies.
(“Some) think it's stupid that we are being bullied,” another agent shot back.
The Doge team of Elon Musk has emailed Border Patrouille agents in recent days and asked the overworked federal agents to list five performance in the past week, agents told DailyMail.com
Border Patrol Agents work on September 22, 2021 at an entry at an entry near the Del Rio International Bridge
A federal officer told DailyMail.com that he reported the e -mail as a phishing -welder and did not intend to respond unless his supervisor told him he had to.
Musk doubled on Monday morning on the e -mail after he had tweeted the results on an unscientific X survey, asking if 'all federal employees are obliged to send a short e -mail with some fundamental bulletpoints about what they last week have reached? '
“The public voices overwhelming in favor,” Musk placed, with a 70.6% for the results.
However, the tweeted sent panic over the border patrouille, as agents who had not overtaken their e -mails and saw the tweet.
Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland is a retired American border patrol station chef. He withdrew from the office in April 2022 and is now the top agent in an external Texas County on the border between the US and Mexico
'I was also shocked and saw that it went to Border Patrol,' retired Border Patrol Chief and the current border shalleriff Thaddeus Cleveland told DailyMail.com on Monday in a telephone interview.
“I can understand some of those other agencies, but of course I am in front of the border, there is nothing more critical than border protection.”
Cleveland suggested that the E -mail may have been sent to all federal employees, in a sloppy step of the DOGE department of Elon.
“You would think someone thinks more about it. You get a lot of these people who may not be so familiar (with the government) working for Elon who are not familiar with the agencies and who is what is and broadcasts it, 'Cleveland, who withdrew from the border patrouille in April 2022.
“If I was still at the border patrol, I would probably have been offended.”
DailyMail.com heard from a number of furious border day after Musk said that the public supported federal employees who send a list of their performance 'overwhelming'
In addition to US President Donald Trump (not depicted), Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, 11 February
American customs and border patrol agents and K-9 Security Dog Keep Watch at a Checkpoint Station, Friday 22 February 2013 in Falfurrias, Texas
Trump campaigned as the biggest proponent of the Border Patrol and earned the approval of the Union that the agents represents during the 2024 elections.
Most agents hoped that working conditions would become better under Trump.
During the time in function of President Joe Biden, agents were forced to look and take care of children who only arrived at the border- something that had never happened before.
They also regularly save desperate migrants who drowned in the river who separated Texas and Mexico or were lost in remote areas and died.
After seeing a record number of suicides during the BIDen era, the department hired a 'suicidologist' to help prevent more deaths.
“Work has become very difficult,” the American Rep. Tony Gonzales, who presents most of the border with Texas, on the New York Post in 2022 when the border crisis was at its peak.
“I have seen it in their faces. I have heard it in their voice for months now. It is almost: “How much can someone take?” And often they have taken a lot before they break. '
By Monday morning, agents at the border had told to ignore the e -mail during their daily collection.
In addition, an e -mail from the Department of Homeland Security Leadership and Agents advised not to take action.
DHS, the parent agency of Border Patrol, sent guidance with the request of agents to take 'no action' on the doge -e -mail, according to an e -mail obtained by dailyymail.com
An e -mail sent by the union for federal employees calls the attempt by Musk to make borderpatrouille agents justify that their jobs are unlawful
'You may have received a message this weekend from OpM (Office of Professional Management) in which you will be asked about information,' the e -mail from RD Everything, the deputy under Secretary for Management at DHS wrote.
'No reporting campaign is needed from you at the moment. For now, pause any reactions outside your DHS command structure. '
In addition, a trade union that represents federal employees, the US Federation of Government employees (AFT), the E -mail sent by the US Office of Professional Management in the direction of Musk.
“Get strongly believes that this e -mail was sent illegally and that OMP lacks the authority to lead the allocation of work to agency staff in this way,” the trade union said.
“We will formally ask to revoke the e -mail and to clarify which authority it has been issued.”
