It Takes an Average of 9 Months to Hire a Border Patrol Agent

[rangerrebew]

 It Takes an Average of 9 Months to Hire a Border Patrol Agent
Posted By Elizabeth Harrington On February 18, 2017 @ 5:00 am In National Security | No Comments

According to the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), it takes more than nine months to hire one Border Patrol Agent.

John Roth told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs during his testimony on Wednesday that inefficiencies within the department will bring a "number of challenges" for the government to meet President Donald Trump's executive order to hire 5,000 additional Border Patrol Agents.

"We recently completed an audit that highlighted numerous bottlenecks in effective hiring," said Roth in his prepared remarks. "We found that historically DHS components had insufficient staffing in the human resource area and had inadequate systems to track and process applicants."

As of two years ago, Roth said, it took the department nearly a year to hire a new agent.

 

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[rangerrebew]

It took a year to hire a border agent to defend a border the democrats didn't want protected? :huh?:

[montanajoe]

So where is the money coming from to hire 5000 more.......

Apparently for most as long as you agree with the policy, deficit spending is cool