One of the biggest challenges in both retaining and hiring new
officers and agents for frontline positions has been the remoteness of
CBP installations. CBP officers and border agents are often stationed
in geographically remote and isolated locations. This likely
contributes to the fact that, of those leaving the agency, nearly 30
percent of Border Patrol agents and over 10 percent of CBP officers are
lost to other agencies. Massive staffing shortages aside, CBP is barely able to hire fast
enough to fill the jobs left by departing agents and officers. So we
have great needs that are not being filled, but we also have attrition
we simply can't replace. In fact, CBP hires only 1 out of every 64
applicants for officer positions, and 1 out of every 113 applicants for
Border Patrol agent positions. This means that less than 2 percent of
applicants manage to get through CBP's hiring process. The situation at
CBP today is simply unsustainable.
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