The U.S. Border Patrol is losing agents faster than it can hire them,
according to a new audit released Wednesday that said competition with
other federal law enforcement and the difficulty of passing a polygraph
test have sapped the agency of nearly 2,000 agents it’s supposed to
have. More than 900 agents leave each year on average but the Border Patrol only hires an average of 523 a year, the
Government Accountability Office said in a broad survey of staffing and deployment challenges at the key border law enforcement agency. The law requires the agency to have a minimum of 21,370 agents on board, but it had just 19,500 agents as of May. That’s
an even bigger problem when stacked up against President Trump’s call
for hiring 5,000 more agents, to reach a workforce of 26,370...
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1 comment:
Its interesting that the border patrol and the airforce are each down 2000 critical employees. Agents in the border patrol and pilots in the airforce. Coincidence? It makes one wonder about how accurate those newscasts are.
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