Over Half of Border Agent Candidates Failing DHS Polygraph Tests – IOTW Report

Over Half of Border Agent Candidates Failing DHS Polygraph Tests

AG: Over half of the applicants currently seeking to become Border Patrol agents have failed the polygraph test issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), leading to speculation that perhaps the high rate of failure is by design.

According to Just The News, National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) president Brandon Judd said that as many as two-thirds of applicants to the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are failing the lie detector test, even after passing lie detector tests in applications for previous jobs.

“They’re failing an awful lot of qualified candidates,” said Judd on Friday. “And the reason why we know that they’re failing them is because these individuals have already passed other polygraph tests, or they fail ours and then they go pass a state polygraph test.”

Judd then claimed that the high rate of failure could be a deliberate effort to weaken border enforcement efforts by drastically reducing the number of new agents.

“We are losing out on a lot of applicants because they don’t want the number of border patrol agents,” Judd explained. “They do not want to ensure that we have enough for patrol agents. Everything that this administration is doing – they are undermining the mission of the Border Patrol. And the reason that they’re doing it is because we have activists that are running law enforcement right now. … And those activists, they do not want the Border Patrol. They do not want law enforcement to succeed. It’s all about defunding police. It’s all about open borders.” MORE

11 Comments on Over Half of Border Agent Candidates Failing DHS Polygraph Tests

  1. Apparently one must be a proficient liar to sign up with DHS and the Border Patrol.

    Run-of-the-mill liars who can be tripped up by a polygraph need not apply.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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  2. Why to I get an image of a Border agent wearing a colander with wires attached to a copier cranking out “He’s telling the truth” with every question…

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  3. Polygraphs are useless anyway. A REAL liar doesn’t set one off because he doesn’t react to his own lies, and a politician level liar believes his own lies so it won’t work with him either.

    The only people it will “catch” are people intimidated by the tech that will stress every time a meaningful question comes up, even though they probably AREN’T lying.

    Useless either way…

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  4. Kids have been taught for decades that lying to justify your actions is okay. So we have a whole generation of liars, to go with the old hippie generation ruining the country.

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