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The Trump administration is looking to hire 10,000 new ICE agents as part of its immigration crackdown. Ten times that number have already applied.
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — In 2006, top U.S. Border Patrol officials were asked how long it would take to hire 6,000 agents, a roughly 50% increase at the time. Michael Fisher, then deputy chief in ...
“CBP may allow a waiver of salary offset, known as a Dual Compensation Waiver, which enables CBP to reemploy Federal Employee ...
(The Center Square) – The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and ...
Paul Perez, president of the National Border Patrol Council — the union representing more than 16,000 frontline agents — joined the Border Patrol in 1997 after serving in the U.S. military.
Horses were pretty much all the agents had back when the Border Patrol was formed in 1924. U.S. Border Patrol agents loads a horse into a trailer. (Ana Ramirez / The San Diego Union-Tribune) ...
Border Patrol staffing has yet to return to its peaks of the early 2010s. Trump tried to increase staffing in his first term. A contract with consulting firm Accenture PLC cost $13.6 million to ...
In 2006, top U.S. Border Patrol officials were asked how long it would take to hire 6,000 agents, a roughly 50% increase at the time. Michael Fisher, then deputy chief in San Diego, says the ...
The Border Patrol nearly doubled its workforce from 11,264 agents in ... Billboards and job fairs hundreds of miles from the border promised fulfilling careers, resulting in thousands of applications ...