by Craig Masters According to the web site CBP.gov, the US Border Patrol agents received about $331million in overtime in 2011. That amount is more than double the 2006 level of roughly $156million. The total overtime for border agents grew to $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal [...]
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Part of pattern regarding immigration enforcement by Jack Minor – In yet another sign of lax enforcement on the border, the Department of Homeland Security has instructed Border Patrol agents to stop conducting random searches of vehicles at transportation hubs. Prior to the directive, border patrol agents would often conduct what [...]
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