A former high-ranking U.S. Border Patrol officer appeared before the House Homeland Security Committee last week and effectively spilled the beans on the Biden/Harris administration’s systematic cover-up of its intentional border malfeasance. We all knew Joe Biden and Border Czar Kamala Harris were letting millions of illegals pour across the open border, but this testimony adds a scandalous component.

Aaron Heitke, the former San Diego Sector Chief who oversaw roughly 1,000 miles of U.S. border, testified that he had been instructed to hide the gravity of the illegal immigration crisis from the press.

Heitke, who retired in the summer of 2023, explained, “I had to release illegal aliens by the hundreds each day into communities who could not support them.” He added, “To quiet the problem, two flights a week were provided from San Diego to Texas. These flights simply brought aliens that would have been released in San Diego over to Texas.”

He said that each flight cost $150,000, noting, “This was the administration’s way of trying to quiet the border-wide crisis.” By dumping illegals in a red state.

Even more troubling, Heitke claims that he was barred from discussing a jump in the number of Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), or individuals with suspected ties to nations or organizations with national security concerns. Heitke noted that prior to 2022, the San Diego sector “averaged 10 to 15 SIA arrests per year." That changed under the Biden/Harris regime, jumping "to over 100 SIAs in 2022, well over that in 2023, and even more than that registered this year.” And, said Heitke grimly, “These are only the ones we caught.”

As previously noted, he was not allowed to speak publicly about this growing threat. “At the time, I was told I could not release any information on this increase on SIAs or mention any of the arrests,” he said. “The administration was trying to convince the public there was no threat at the border.”

Heitke isn’t the only Border Patrol official making these allegations. His testimony corroborates the claims made by former Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott this past January, who said, “I assert that Secretary Mayorkas and his subordinate political appointees have and continue to intentionally conspire to undermine the security of the American people, as well as the letter and the intent of congressionally enacted U.S. law.”

It is clear that the goal of the Biden/Harris administration regarding border security is to get as many migrants into the country as possible while at the same time making a show of supposedly working to secure the border. The administration has facilitated this invasion of illegal aliens, not repelled it.

Furthermore, Kamala Harris hides behind the Republicans’ wise refusal to pass a bad border bill as a cynical excuse for deflecting any responsibility for the border crisis while pretending to be ready and willing to secure the border if only those Republican lawmakers weren’t tying the administration’s hands.

Of course, the border crisis is due to the Biden/Harris administration’s reversal of Donald Trump’s successful efforts to secure it. Arguably, there is no bigger conspiracy within this administration than this intentional invasion and the efforts to cover it up.

If our nation suffers another jihadist attack due to our porous southern border, the Biden/Harris administration will have blood on its hands. And that blood will be in addition to that of the numerous Americans who have already been murdered as a result of this tidal wave of illegal immigration.