article_snippet: The latest example of congressional dysfunction has real world implications here, where thousands of agents monitor the U.S. border with Mexico.
article_snippet: I don't know how that's going to affect the protection of the border or border patrol, but I guess we're going to find out.
article_snippet: Chris Cabrera, the vice president of the Local 3307 National Border Patrol Council, a union for border agents, echoed those sentiments.
article_snippet: Chris Cabrera, the vice president of the Local 3307 National Border Patrol Council, a union for border agents said that in the McAllen area, about 2,000 agents would be affected by a longer term funding bill.
article_snippet: Chris Cabrera, the vice president of the Local 3307 National Border Patrol Council, a union for border agents said the problem is in Washington, where Congress won't feel the direct effect of a possible funding gap.
article_snippet: As a border patrol agent for 13 years who also felt the effect of the 2013 shutdown, Chris Cabrera, the vice president of the Local 3307 National Border Patrol Council, a union for border agents remembers how it went down last time.
article_snippet: It's pretty much out of our hands" Chris Cabrera, the vice president of the Local 3307 National Border Patrol Council, a union for border agents said.
article_snippet: In the meantime, Chris Cabrera, the vice president of the Local 3307 National Border Patrol Council, a union for border agents said Chris Cabrera, the vice president of the Local 3307 National Border Patrol Council, a union for border agents's working with local agents to help local agents send letters to local agents mortgage companies to alert their mortgage companies of the possible problems because most of their mortgage companies are considered essential personnel and will have to continue working without a paycheck.
article_snippet: For now, Chris Cabrera, the vice president of the Local 3307 National Border Patrol Council, a union for border agents said that's all that the union can do to help.