Hard Times a ‘Two-Fer’ for Border Patrol

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Rob Margetta, Congressional Quarterly, February 6, 2009

Tougher economic times are giving Customs and Border Protection a bigger pool of potential border patrol agents from which to choose while simultaneously reducing the rate of illegal border crossings.

CBP set an all-time record for border patrol applications last week, receiving 6,000, according to agency officials who briefed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday.

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Agency Commissioner Ralph Basham said CBP plans to take advantage of the surplus of applicants in its efforts to add 11,300 people to its 53,000-employee roster this year.

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Officials also said a drop in attempted border crossings is likely linked to the economy. According to CBP statistics, activity at the border is down 21 percent compared with the same time last year.

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[Secretary Napolitano] said the economy will rebound but, while there is a lull, DHS should take the opportunity to build up its border resources and strategy.

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Email Rob Margetta at rmargetta@cq.com.

(Posted on February 12, 2009)

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Comments

1 — Question Diversity wrote at 6:02 PM on February 12:

Yes, but wait until these new CBP agents actually get the foolish notion that they can actually do their job, like Ramos and Compean. Panderers like U.S. Attorney Johnny Suttonfong will see them sent to Federal prison, where they’ll be abused, raped and beat up by many illegal aliens in the same prison.

2 — Obscuratus wrote at 6:52 PM on February 12:

As good as this will be for white America, until further (both legal and illegal) immigration is ended, and a program of repatriation is initiated - this is just the Romans refusing the Huns only to invite the Goths in, or the Britons refusing the Angles only to invite the Saxons in.

3 — q wrote at 10:57 PM on February 12:

“Secretary Napolitano] said the economy will rebound but, while there is a lull, DHS should take the opportunity to build up its border resources and strategy.”

Secretary Napolitano was a governor of a state that has been on the verge of bankruptcy, because she didn’t manage it properly.

Pray tell how anybody so incompetent could know the economy is going to rebound?

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