Actually, if ICE and CBP were doing their job, they wouldn’t be heard of/from, but they insist on contradicting even the most conservative of myths about America. And then there’s the detention facilities, the separation of families, and the crypto-fascism of the Trump administration with Muslim bans and caravan demonizing. And the above is done in the name of “homeland security”.
(2018)
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a longstanding corruption problem, and the Trump Administration hasn't been immune. At least 13 employees have been arrested on corruption-related charges since the start of the Trump Administration, according to records obtained by the Project On Government Oversight through the Freedom of Information Act.
have got their own nameless, faceless militarized police force, assembled under the Orwellian "Protecting American Communities Task Force (PACT)" moniker.
ICE: ripped children from parents & put them in cages, “lost” those parents, did forced sterilizations, torturing asylum seekers into signing their own deportation papers.
(2019)
Reporting from Washington —
Two years after President Trump signed orders to hire 15,000 new border agents and immigration officers, the administration has spent tens of millions of dollars in the effort — but has thousands more vacancies than when it began.
In a sign of the difficulties, Customs and Border Protection allocated $60.7 million to Accenture Federal Services, a management consulting firm, as part of a $297-million contract to recruit, vet and hire 7,500 border officers over five years, but the company has produced only 33 new hires so far.
The president’s promised hiring surge steadily lost ground even as he publicly hammered away at the need for stiffer border security, warned of a looming migrant invasion and shut down parts of the government for five weeks over his demands for $5.7 billion from Congress for a border wall.wyly music
The Border Patrol gained a total of 120 agents in 2018, the first net gain in five years.
But the agency has come nowhere close to adding more than 2,700 agents annually, the rate that Kevin McAleenan, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, has said is necessary to meet Trump’s mandated 26,370 border agents by the end of 2021.“The hiring surge has not begun,” the inspector general’s office at the Department of Homeland Security concluded last November.
“We have had ongoing difficulties with regards to hiring levels to meet our operational needs,” a Homeland Security official told The Times on Saturday, speaking on condition of anonymity. He described the Border Patrol’s gain last year as a “a huge improvement.”
Border security agencies long have faced challenges with recruitment and retention of front-line federal law enforcement — in particular Border Patrol agents — much less swiftly hiring 15,000 more.
