Breitbart TX: Appearing on this week’s Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson, a former head of internal affairs at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) discusses whether the agency can properly vet 15,000 new Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and officers.
James Tomscheck served as head of CBP internal affairs for eight years during the Bush and Obama Administrations. During that timeframe, he faced the challenge of hiring and properly screening 10,000 people between 2006 and 2008. Following that surge a government watchdog report detailed a dramatic increase in corruption cases involving Border Patrol and ICE agents, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly reported in February 2013. The report led to CBP adding polygraph examinations to its hiring and screening process. read more
uh, yes.
do you own a gun?
no.
would you like a gun?
yes.
you’re hired.
stand here and point gun that-a-way.
just point and click.
HELLO!
So many swamps. So little time.
Walk through the parking lots looking for Coexist, Obama or Hillary stickers or other such evidence and fire them first. Maybe they’re not that brazen and stupid. But I doubt it.
Fix that sign to read:
NO FREE STUFF AHEAD!
Dry up the freebies.
Make America Great Again.
All they really need is agents to investigate employers. No guns needed for that role. Plenty of current agents for the gun totin’ role, which is certainly an important one.
My nephew has been a border agent for 5 years. He’s assigned to an East Coast international airport.
It took FOREVER for him to wait for the test, wait to see if he passed, wait for the interview, wait to see if he’s hired, wait for the training.
I’m certain there are 5,000 great people out there who would be terrific border agents and would be grateful for the job. Get the bureaucrats out of it, define what makes a great agent and screen for those candidates. Give them a test that corresponds to the job requirements with no lowering of standards for race or sex.
I’ll be IOTW commenters could identify the 5,000, no problem.
Page O Turner,
You are confusing good sense with government process. The two have nothing in common.
In the early ’90’s they were working the
military separation training classes very hard
looking for candidates. I would have done it but
I didn’t get out. They even offered M-14’s and a
thousand rounds a month for practice.