Thread: U.S. Border Patrol Recruiting in Memphis

U.S. Border Patrol Recruiting in Memphis
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security MEMPHIS, TN - The U.S. Border Patrol was in Memphis looking for recruits on Saturday, March 21, 2009.


The Memphis Career Fair is part of the agency's nationwide effort to fill thousands of jobs.

This is the second time the border patrol has recruited in the Bluff City and officials say both times were very successful.

Hundreds of people who are not only looking for work, but also hoping to protect the country against foreign and domestic threats turned out Satuday to get more information about the opportunity.

The U.S. Border Patrol has a goal of filling some 11,000 law enforcement and support positions this year.

Officials say they're looking for a diversified group of people.

Border Patrol recruits earn between $36,000 and $46,000 their first year with the potential of earning up to $70,000 a year within three years.


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I hear there is a large MS-13 contingent in Memphis. Since TSA hired MS-13 airport screeners (they didn't hire me even though I had a higher than top secret clearance from NSA), UPS used them in a secure receiving facility and the Border Patrol hired them too so why not hire all the ones illegally in Memphis? Hell they can even take advantage of TX Rep Howard Berman's 200,000 dollar gang tattoo removal provision in the stimulus to protect gang members. This so called government already opened the borders by killing e-verify and Obama, Napolitano and Pelosi legalized identity theft saying illegal aliens who use stolen identities to illegally obtain jobs can keep those jobs and will not be deported. Hire them since this "government" wants cheap labor to pay cheap wages.........

Because of the previous administration and the current administration's support for open borders, cheap labor, the Mexican government, drug cartels and Mexican government agent schmucks as Napolitano and Sutton the Border Patrol motto now is "On the Job Today, in Jail Tomorrow".

Border patrol recruiting event draws hundreds of job seekers Downtown

By Daniel Connolly
Sunday, March 22, 2009

While corporate America is rapidly shedding jobs during the recession, government is bucking the trend, including the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The federal agency that seizes shipments of illegal drugs and stops migrants from unlawfully entering the country is hiring thousands of workers.

Hundreds of job seekers attended a border patrol recruiting event Saturday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Downtown.

The agency hopes to hire about 11,000 people in the near future, including border agents, officers to work in airports and other entry points around the country, and support staffers ranging from accountants to mechanics to pilots, spokeswoman Tara Dunlop said.

Those accepted as border agents will go through training in New Mexico. All recruits must either show proficiency in Spanish or take an intensive language course before being assigned to a sector along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The new agents will arrive at a precarious time: violence has spiked as drug cartels fight each other and the Mexican government for control of smuggling routes. The rash of violence has spilled into U.S. cities like Phoenix, where kidnappings have become common.

Drug-related violence killed 6,290 people last year and more than 1,000 so far this year, most of them in Mexico, according to The Associated Press.

Despite the dangers from well-armed criminals, government is one of the few areas of the economy that's still growing, and the border patrol's promise of salaries ranging from $36,000 to $46,000 to start with the potential to earn up to $70,000 within three years of service is likely to attract a lot of attention at a time of widespread job cuts.

In addition to dealing with drug smugglers, border agents will also be expected to slow illegal immigration, a phenomenon that's taken a back seat at the national level as the Obama administration focuses on issues like the economy and health care.

There are some questions about the policy of hiring so many border agents.

Pro-immigrant advocacy groups such as the National Council of La Raza* have said protecting the border is necessary, but isn't enough to deal with the nation's immigration problem -- they say Congress should pass a comprehensive bill that improves the immigration system and gives illegal immigrants already here a shot at legal status.
[* http://www.nclr.org ]

A representative from the group was unavailable for comment.

The government has historically focused more attention on stopping migrants at the border than on deporting illegal immigrants already here, and there have been few immigration sweeps in Memphis in recent years.

The border patrol's heavy hiring reflects political realities, say observers like Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies*, a group that calls for stricter immigration enforcement at the border and in the interior of the country.
[* http://www.cis.org ]

"The pressure that businesses put on congressmen when the law is enforced is one of the reasons border patrol is more attractive," he said. "Because when you detain someone who's crossing the border, you're not shutting anyone's business down. Even if he's heading to his dishwashing job in Chicago, he's not in that job yet."

-- Daniel Connolly: 529-5296

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More information
To learn more about U.S. Customs and Border Protection, visit http://www.cbp.gov/