Thread: HIT PIECE-Keeping a Wary Eye on the Growing Border Patrol

NOTICE THIS WAS WRITTEN BY THE TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS REVIEW...AND WE ALL KNOW IT'S NEVER OUR CIVIL RIGHTS THESE KINDS OF PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT...









Keeping a Wary Eye on the Growing Border Patrol, a Little History

By Nick Braune


According to the McAllen paper, The Monitor, some 5,000 people in the Rio Grande Valley applied for jobs with the Border Patrol in the last four months. That it is not completely surprising since the agency pays almost $50,000 a year and has embarrassingly low entry-level requirements, a high school diploma. (Compare that to other federal enforcement agencies which require a college degree at minimum.)

As I have reported in previous columns, there has also been some question, arising from within their own ranks, about how well the new recruits are being screened and mentored. And The Monitor has also noted lately that there were four Border Patrol officers in the Valley arrested for felonies in 2008. Five, if you count the brother of one of the arrested agents. The brother is also in the Patrol and was arrested in neighboring Zapata County for taking $23,000 in bribes from drug traffickers. Four of the five arrested last year were involved in drug trafficking.

Why is it important to keep an eye on the Border Patrol? Well, it has been beefed up massively as part of the “virtual wallâ€

The border guard could stop illegals from invading our country if our Gov't really wanted to do it.