For
example, CBP has invested $200 million in a port of entry
infrastructure in Arizona, alone, over the last 8 years, but there is
simply not enough staff to open up every lane that is available. I want to emphasize this point: officer and agent shortages did not
happen overnight. The U.S. Border Patrol has not met its
congressionally mandated hiring numbers since fiscal year 2014, and CBP
has been losing officers to man our ports since early in fiscal year
2016. At the current hiring rate, approximately 113 applicants go through
the process in order to hire a single officer or agent. That means CBP
needs to have hundreds of thousands of people apply just to meet their
current needs.
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