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Have you ever been to the US/Mexican Border along Arizona, NM, or Texas.....?

Yeah....it would be a real cool place for a summer vacay for favored employees in such places as Douglas, Naco, and Nogales.......

I would see TSA screeners as a liability in that role.

Yes, I have been along the Arizona and New Mexico borders.

I know folks who would jump at a chance to do this: per diem, nowhere to spend money anyway, so suck up all the OT you can, it's not forever.

It's like summer camp - yeah, it's hot (without the AC that these guys will get every chance they can), dusty and maybe buggy, but no kid wants to miss it - especially if your allowance piles up while you are away. The ordinary rules are relaxed, you're outside your normal management oversight, in fact, you're in a situation where oversight and accountability are going to be minimal at best - there will be people who want this.

I've taken worse short-term assignments for long-term gain.

While "deploying" employees to the border, TSA is also hiring 2000 more screeners to cover the summer rush. Allegedly, some have already been hired and trained. I would tend to believe that those already trained aren't increasing the staffing but are replacing screeners who have left the agency.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...s-rise-1468450

Funny..... EVERY CBP Agent I know has been pissed to get sent down here.... counted the days to get the hell out of here.....and asked not to come back....

Not sure who you heard that from but it's a complete cluster F' down here due to POTUS/his staff/Congress Critters, etc.....all being down here trying to "check things out."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...other-n1007961

That last "funding" source is simply pathetic.

Im curious as to why folks are typing "deployment". That would imply the writer is suggesting this is somehow not deployment? (I'd hazard a guess that some feel only the military "deploys"...but the word means more than just that... I deployed a parachute many, many times...for instance...)

P.S. Took a drive through southern AZ one Summer.... You couldn't pay ME enough to go work there....(And Im an Aussie...not exactly unfamiliar with heat!)

But it's a dry heat.

I found it amusing that the TSA, which considers itself to be a military-like organization, used the word "deploy" to describe sending employees to the border. It becomes even more amusing when one learns that TSA is asking for volunteers to go to the border. TSA is sending individuals to the border, not organized units, which could perhaps be considered a "deployment."

My understanding was that almost all new hire CBP officers are stationed on the southern border. I'm sure there are exceptions.

I know that CBP officers are tasked to the breaking point and it is going to take more than repositioning workers from other agencies to resolve the problem.

It doesn't strike me as odd. Military deployments aren't always based on a particular unit moving. Most military members in my career field deploy individually, without regard to their permanent organizational unit's status. In fact in this and related career fields, active-duty members are almost always assigned to organizations with a mixture of active-duty and civilian employees (often majority civilian), so their assigned unit would never deploy.

Also, in many civilian career fields, DoD civil service employees can volunteer for deployment on an individual basis (and I know a number who have done so).

Use to be the case but now they are doing a lot more directed hiring (depending on the announcement). Bigger Cites are getting tossed in with Border towns to fill up their ranks.

They are tossing out huge bonus's if you take a focus city for a few years.

AZ and CA wouldn't be that bad in the scheme of things..... if it was only for a few years.

NM/Tex...? Screw that. There are some really, really, really outposts in those two states......

As for exceptions.... I know guys personally that have been on the Northern Border all their careers and got stuck down here on TDY for 90 days and were acting like crying kids.....

Rumor has it that they are asking for CBP and Border Patrol Agents not along the boarder to come visit up to 90 days.....along with FAMS....before they start forcing the issue.

What's next....VIPER Teams going to be sent down there...? LOL....LOL...

I might have outdated information. I do know that some of the remote stations on the far southwest Texas and NM borders are pretty much as far away from modern civilization as you can get. People who have never been there have no idea just how much fun it is down there.