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Old Jul 5, 2013 | 3:08 pm
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Originally Posted by MikeMpls
Oh, yes, quite clearly.

These people have a reputation for shooting children in the back and beating people to death.

I don't give the Border Patrol the benefit of the doubt, ever.

From San Diego channel 10:



Inside sources told Team 10 some Border Patrol agents are a danger to society.

The sources said problems start with recruitment and continue through agents' training.

"I know a few agents that are a menace to society, but they have a badge and a gun," said a veteran agent and training instructor who agreed to talk to Team 10 on the condition of anonymity.

"We went from a 20-week course to a 12-week course," the same source said of the Border Patrol training academy. "They say the standards weren't lowered, but they were."

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"Pretty much everybody gets through the academy," the source said.

The source also said the large number of recruited agents meant background checks could be delayed as long as three years.

"They'd been in the system for three years and they finally found out through their background that they had some felonies," the source said, adding they had personally seen trainees arrested and escorted off the training grounds by sheriff's deputies.

The Border Patrol would not comment on that allegation.

Former agent Ephraim Cruz quit the Border Patrol after nine years, over what he said was unqualified agents mistreating illegal immigrants. He agreed with the confidential source's assessment citing a lack of accountability.

"We have a huge problem," Cruz said. "There is a huge problem with the abuse of their authority within the Border Patrol and it's being covered up at the very height of our government."

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I just looked up the length of training for CBP hires. I'm believe they are referring to a 5 day work week so 12 weeks is just about right.

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/careers/c...bp_academy.xml

Each Border Patrol Agent intern must complete a 58-day resident course of instruction in integrated law, physical training, firearms instruction, and driving. Any Border Patrol Agent intern not fluent in the Spanish language must also complete a 40-day Task-Based Language Training program. Border Patrol interns must maintain a passing score in all courses of instruction in order to be retained.
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