On June 4 in El Paso, Texas. At 6 a.m., the sun rose on a 15-year-old Guatemalan boy and his father who were trying to walk across the border to apply for asylum. They did not swim the Rio Grande or otherwise attempt to enter the country illegally — they’d made their attempt on an arcing, international bridge that joins El Paso with its Mexican sister city, Ciudad Juárez. They were stopped at the top of the bridge by two CBP agents who refused to let them cross, pointed them back to Mexico, and said to try crossing later. This was the sixth time in three days that the man, his son, and about a dozen other Guatemalans had been thus rejected. This is blatantly against the US Constitution. This Administration has a responsibility to have the facilities and personal on hand to process all Asylum Seekers. This tactic stops them from claiming Asylum because you have to be on US soil in order to ask for Asylum. This forces persons and families to cross illegally and then present themselves to CBP officers as soon they can, and they are charged with Illegally entering the country. We took a Oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies both foreign and domestic. This is a clear threat to the foundation of the United States and as Veterans we are obligated to take a stand against it.