The Department of Homeland Security wants to make it easier to hire new border patrol agents.

[ZiprHead]

To hire 5,000 new border agents, Trump administration seeks to drop lie detector test

“What we’re found is that many agents brought on beforehand who had not gone through a polygraph were cooperating with cartels and subject to corruption,” Jawetz said. “The polygraph has served a function to weed out people in the beginning.”

CBP union officials point out that the 65 percent failure rate for the polygraph exam is far higher than the rate at other federal agencies. A January Associated Press investigation found that the failure rate is more than double the average rate at eight law enforcement agencies. As of February, CBP was already 1,768 agents short of its floor.

According to a report by the Government Accountability Office, more than 2,000 CBP agents were arrested for misconduct between 2005 and 2012, including for DUIs, domestic violence and false imprisonment. Corruption often went unpunished. In 2014, a CBP agent in McAllen, Texas, was under suspicion for misconduct when he kidnapped three Honduran women he had detained. After raping them and attempting to kill two of them, he shot himself.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Of course they have a high failure rate, it's the place the cartels would most like to infiltrate.

 

[barbos]

I remember watching Oliver on that topic and I think it was when Obama was still a president. It's an old problem.
Makes you wonder how much drug trafficking is affected by that. Couple of corrupted agent could pass through tonnes and tonnes of drugs at ones.

 

[jonatha]

Going back to paying them might help...

 

[barbos]

Going back to paying them might help...

But the problem is older than shutdown. It does not look they are paid well enough to attract non-mexian people.
Imagine border-patrol officer who has relatives on the other side?

 

[ZiprHead]

Customs And Border Protection Paid A Firm $13.6 Million To Hire Recruits. It Hired 2

Maybe this is part of the problem.

 

[Worldtraveller]

Customs And Border Protection Paid A Firm $13.6 Million To Hire Recruits. It Hired 2

Maybe this is part of the problem.

'tis a bargain!

 

[Elixir]

Customs And Border Protection Paid A Firm $13.6 Million To Hire Recruits. It Hired 2

Maybe this is part of the problem.

'tis a bargain!

If they cut out the middle man and offered a $6,800,000.00 salary, they'd have plenty of prospective recruits.