In 2018, the agency added 118 Border Patrol agents, with only three stationed along the southern border.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/29/border-patrol-struggling-to-hire-5000-agents-president-trump/3155869002/
If Trump has the expertise to decide who can and who can't be a Navy Seal, he sure as hell can find more than 3 border patrol agents at the Mexican border.
The agency has struggled to hire and retain agents for a wide variety of reasons.
Their work schedules can change quickly, they're regularly asked to work overtime, and they're required to patrol some of the most treacherous sections of the border. In the past 17 years, 41 Customs and Border Protection employees have died in the line of duty, according to agency data.
For two decades, and over multiple administrations, Border Patrol experienced steady growth. Border Patrol increased in size every year from 1994 to 2011, when it reached its peak of 21,444 agents. But the agency has been shedding agents ever since, dropping each of the next six years before the small increase in 2018.
When U.S. Border Patrol agents called on the patrol's air unit to provide overhead coverage for operations, about four out of five requests were rejected over three recent years.
The reason? A lack of pilots.
It's not undocumented immigrants killing most of the border agents. It's suicide and lack of quality of life that comes with it.
Agents were being reduced because of the difficulty in dealing with the treacherous terrain.
The Trump admin has already conceded a wall cannot be built on the treacherous parts.
Not to mention, if they were somehow able to get the trillions of dollars needed to build their metal slats along the deadlier terrain, you'd still need agents to patrol those slats.
A wall becomes a useless expenditure at that point.
But Trumpers hate these facts. Better to live in your fantasy, yes?
Why is there a lack of quality of life for Border Patrol agents, exactly?
Why do you think they are trying to hire more pilots?
Who said the wall has to be completely continuous? Isn't it easier to patrol a smaller area as opposed to a larger area?
What's the difference in agents needed with a wall as opposed to open ground? Less? More? The answers obvious.
These are your reasons why the wall is a useless expenditure? Why is DISNEYLAND, the happiest place on Earth, surrounded by a wall, pray tell?
Once again, you fail to exhibit any rational thought. This is another PHONY "honest" discussion of yours, innit?
You do realize Obama has been out of office since January 2017 - nearly 3 years now? You do remember T-rump's campaign promise that Mexico was paying for the big, beautiful wall he was going to build?
Again, being on the spectrum sure does wreak havoc with your comprehension skills.
You do know that speaking on the same issue is comparative, yes? Duuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....🤪🤪🤪
Yes he did and he still can, but hopefully diplomacy will win out in the end. However, what do you care? This is a good thing for you, innit? 🤪🤪🤪
And I'm still flattered with your concern of my private life. You're border line stalker at this point, but it keeps you busy from getting rekt.🤪🤪🤪🤪
Fewer Border Patrol and ICE agents than there were 4 years ago.
Mission Accomplished?
Did he at least send 3 more BP agents to the southern border in the last 12 months? Or are they all still in Portland knocking around pot-smoking hippies?
City police pays more.
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