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Border Patrol struggles to recruit agents amid immigration crackdown
Source: The Guardian
Border Patrol struggles to recruit agents amid immigration crackdown
Trump ordered the agency to beef up patrols and surveillance
in advance of his proposed border wall, but the current force
is already shy of target set by Obama
Rory Carroll in San Antonio, Texas
Friday 14 April 2017 10.00 BST
Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has a problem: not enough Americans are willing to carry it out.
The Border Patrol is losing agents faster than it can replace them, putting a question mark over the president’s plan to ramp up the force.
Air and Marine Operations, a separate agency, is also struggling to find pilots and other employees.
“If you know people who are enthusiastic about border security please send them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP),” Ronald Vitiello, the Border Patrol chief, said in an appeal this week. “We’re already behind. We’re not hiring fast enough to keep up with the attrition.”
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Trump ordered the agency to beef up patrols and surveillance
in advance of his proposed border wall, but the current force
is already shy of target set by Obama
Rory Carroll in San Antonio, Texas
Friday 14 April 2017 10.00 BST
Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has a problem: not enough Americans are willing to carry it out.
The Border Patrol is losing agents faster than it can replace them, putting a question mark over the president’s plan to ramp up the force.
Air and Marine Operations, a separate agency, is also struggling to find pilots and other employees.
“If you know people who are enthusiastic about border security please send them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP),” Ronald Vitiello, the Border Patrol chief, said in an appeal this week. “We’re already behind. We’re not hiring fast enough to keep up with the attrition.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/14/trump-immigration-border-patrol-agents-low-recruitment
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