Trump’s Plan to Hire New Border Patrol Agents Falls Far Short of Goal
President Trump’s call for tighter border security came with a pledge two years ago to hire 15,000 new border agents and immigration officers.
President Trump’s call for tighter border security came with a pledge two years ago to hire 15,000 new border agents and immigration officers.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council and head of the union representing Border Patrol agents, tells CNN there’s “no way” the “catch and release” of deportable immigrants can stop under President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep undocumented immigrant parents and children together. Judd said in a Thursday interview with…
About 100 activists gathered Monday evening to protest the Justice Department’s decision not to file charges against Border Patrol agents in the death of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas.
For President Bush — who gave far few commutations or pardons than people expected — this was one of the higher profile cases. By CNN Two former U.S. Border Patrol agents — whose cases became flashpoints in the controversy over border security — were released early from prison Tuesday, one of their attorneys and a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA) has fired off a letter to President Bush asking him to pardon or commute the sentence of two Border Patrol agents who shot a drug trafficker in the buttocks in 2005 near the El Paso-Mexico border. “As you are aware, former U.S….