These small changes will provide CBP with immediate relief so they
are able to quickly, yet judiciously, hire officers and agents from a
pool of qualified applicants who already maintain the public's trust
and put their lives on the line for our security and our safety on a
daily basis. I want to make my position very clear. Everyone who applies to be a
CBP officer or Border Patrol agent should be thoroughly vetted to
ensure there are no integrity issues in their background and they are
not at risk for corruption. That is how the current system operates,
and nothing in this bill would change that. That is why Congress
required polygraph examinations and stringent background checks for
agents in the first place.
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