By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Jaime Salazar, a 25-year veteran of the Border Patrol, was recently appointed agent in charge of the agency’s Brownsville station.
Salazar joined the Border Patrol as an agent in June 1992 and has worked his way through the ranks, most recently serving as a strategic advisor to the ICE/ERO deputy director in 2017, the Brownsville Herald reports.
The Brownsville Border Patrol Station oversees 23 miles of river and 80 square miles of Cameron County.
The Herald wrote:
Salazar became a Border Patrol agent on June 4, 1992 and was assigned to the Chula Vista Station in the San Diego Sector. In 1997, he was promoted to senior patrol agent in Harlingen and subsequently promoted to supervisor in 1998.
In 2002, he was promoted to the PAIC over the Intelligence Unit for the Rio Grande Valley Sector, where in over eight years he transformed the Sector Intelligence Unit. In 2010, Salazar was promoted as the first J2/Intelligence Commander for CBP in Laredo.
In 2013, Salazar became an associate chief in the Law Enforcement Operations Directorate at the United Stated Border Patrol Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
In 2014, he was appointed deputy director for the Department of Homeland Security Human Smuggling Cell, a White House National Security Council Interagency taskforce established to combat international human smuggling efforts. Two years later, he became the acting director for the CBP Counter Network Division charged with integrating operations, intelligence and analysis. He later became a strategic advisor to the ICE/ERO Deputy Director in 2017.
