...Border Patrol Selection Process CJA/214 December 06, 2010 Deborah Alsup Border Patrol Selection Process A border patrol agent is a federal law enforcement officer who prevents illegally people from entering the country. Border patrol agent’s job can be difficult and demanding; in the United States security is their main priority. Because there has been an increased in terrorist threats, keeping weapons and terrorists from crossing the border is the key priority of a border patrol. In this paper, I describe the selection process for a border patrol agent. I will also include the training process and career development programs for officers. Border patrol officer’s jobs can be overwhelming: to walk the beat and safeguard more than 5,900 miles of land boundaries and on the coast more than 1,999 of boundaries. Today the canyons, mountains, deserts and beaches of the United States are safeguard by roughly 10,000 plus border patrol agent. They patrol by helicopter, boat, all-terrain vehicle, foot, horseback, motorcycle, bike and snowmobile. The process to becoming a border patrol agent can be difficult for an individual thinking about presuming a career in this field. To eliminate amateur applicants the interview process can be complicated. It can take up to eights to complete the process from beginning to end. Border patrol prospects must be in good health, demonstrate cleverness, bravery, and speak a foreign language or capable to be taught to speak bilingual. The age...
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...What It Takes to Become a Border Patrol Agent Reflecting to the course of my existence, I have come to the realization that no one ever does something just to do it. Whether it’s jumping off a plane, going to college for 6 years, or simply eating, we all have our reasons that backup our actions or anything else for that matter. I truly believe that I was put on this earth to help others. I want to make a difference in the world by keeping my country safe using my kindness, intelligence, and rationale. I want to be successful and have that mature mindset to be the best that I can be. I would love to work in the criminal justice field and be a border patrol agent. They are tough, diligent, and are always on the move trying to catch bad guys. Description of a Border Patrol Agent...
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...Has Constitutional Distortion Become Common Practice in the Mexican-American Border region? The Unites states has implemented permanent Inland Immigration Checkpoints on all major roads leading away from Mexico in the southern states. Are these checkpoints Legal? Can you refuse? What are your rights? Does the law agree with them? These questions are important and mostly left unanswered. The research shows a major dividing line between literal interpretation of the fourth amendment, and the government’s insistence on distorting the constitution, vital to ensureing our national security. Inland immigration checkpoints provide a vital role in ensuring the safety of the United States. Their existence although a minor inconvenience to many motorists, is crucial in stopping the trafficking of drugs and illegal immigration. The U.S. Border Patrol, a component of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), aims to apprehend persons who illegally enter the United States between official ports of entry, including potential terrorists, aliens, and contraband smugglers, thereby deterring or stopping illegal activity.(DHS 2012). The Supreme Court first approved of law enforcement roadblocks in a case involving the Border Patrol’s practice of stopping traffic on major highways to prevent the trafficking of illegal aliens. (U.S. v. Martinez-Fuerte). The Court also first introduced the idea of a balancing test for roadblocks...
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...Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act Boarder security in the United States of America has been a big topic of discussion for many years. Many bills and laws have been passed, denied, or ignored completely. One in particular is currently still fighting to become law, though. The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act was introduced in the United States Senate on April 16th, 2013, and was proposed by Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York. The bill has been approved and passed by the Senate, but still lies in wait to be approved by the House, and by the President, before becoming an official law. This bill, if passed, will make it possible for immigrants to live in the United States legally. They will gain legal statues, and then become official citizens. This bill will also tighten boarder control, adding 40,000 more patrol agents. Visas as well will be affected, creating new ones for entrepreneurs, as well as lower skilled workers. The bill will require roughly $46.3 billion for border enforcement alone, making its chance of becoming a law rather slim. Despite the cost, this bill should be put into law because its overall effect is much greater than the monetary worth. If this was to become law, the lives of many people could be improved. Most immigrants will be coming in from Mexico in search for a better life for their families. Mexico’s position is not as well as America’s, and the people there...
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...Border Control The Mexican-United states border is the most frequently used border in the world. For most, crossing this border symbolizes new opportunity and a chance for a better life. Laws, regulations, and money have caused the journey from Mexico to The United States to be extremely difficult. This causes people to cross illegally. The United States needs to make crossing the border and becoming a legal citizen easier and more achievable. The U.S. border control was created in 1924 to stop illegal transportation across the border into America. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection describes border control as the following: Since its inception in 1924, the U.S. Border Patrol has had a proud history of service to our nation. Although enormous changes have affected nearly every aspect of its operations from its earliest days, the basic values that helped shape the Patrol in the early years; professionalism, honor, integrity, respect for human life, and a shred effort, have remained. (1) Soon after the law defined “illegal alien” as “a foreigner who has entered or resides in a country unlawfully or without the country's authorization”. Dictionary (1) These foreigners who wanted nothing more than to live “The American Dream” were quickly recognized as the enemies of America. Opinions became formed that these immigrants were lazy criminals who were here to destroy the U.S. Soon illegal and legal immigrants from Mexico were viewed and treated with little to no respect. ...
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...they argue that the benefits, such as taxes, outweigh the costs that an immigrant will incur. The idea is that an immigrant buys our products and lives in our country, which contributes to our G.D.P. On the other side of the argument, the con-immigration side argues that the immigrants steal jobs from the U.S. residents. Since immigrants can be paid cheaper wages, an employer would rather pay an immigrant than a resident. The next issue the con side has it that immigrants bring problems to America, such as cultural differences and language barriers. Not only do they bring problems, but according the con side, they cause problems as well. They argue that because there are more immigrants trying to get in the country than there are border patrol agents, they cannot protect the country like they are supposed to. Another issue the con side has is that the money the immigrants earn usually gets sent back to their families in their home countries. The final issue from the con side is that the cost of an illegal alien is more than the benefits that they bring to the U.S. The values on the pro side are culture, finances, life, and...
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...UNITED STATES AND CANADA AND MEXICO BORDER Border Patrol focus has been detection, apprehension and/or deterrence of terrorists and terrorist weapons (Securing America’s Borders). 2011). The duties and responsibilities of the Border Patrol is one of the most important jobs and it is to detect and prevent the entry of illegal immigrants, terrorists, and smugglers into the United States. The amount of travellers that come through the United States, the trade that the United States engage in, and the number of immigrants entering the United States makes us a target for terrorist attacks from different angles. The Department of Homeland Security was created to deal with and address the threat of international terrorism (Securing America’s Borders). The priority mission of this department is homeland security. The Hart-Rudman Commission had three innovations they were trying to accomplish. The first of which the commission thought the United States needed to push its borders outward, developing what it called a “layered defense” (Alden, 2009, p. 39). The senators thought that the U.S. needs to work more with foreign countries to try to identify threats and/or terrorists before they arrive in the U.S. Secondly, the commission recommended the government need to work with companies, mainly private shipping companies, who ships goods or products to other countries or around the world (Alden, p. 39). This would help not only the government but the companies involved in order...
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...immigrants on the United States has become an issue that has stirred the emotions of all American citizens for many decades. With the population of illegal immigrants believed to be having a negative impact on the rising cost of healthcare, the contribution to a nationwide problem of unemployment, and citizens and immigrants’ alike calling for fairness to all, a complete immigration reform is something that needs to be addressed on a national level. President Barack Obama has a “commonsense immigration reform proposal.” His proposal consists of four parts that will hold accountable not just the illegal workers, but the employers who hire them as well. There are four parts to President Obama’s proposed reform: 1) continue to strengthen the borders to the United States; by doing so would strengthen our ability to remove criminals and apprehend and prosecute national security threats; 2) crackdown on employers who hire undocumented workers by holding accountable the employers who do not follow hiring practices and resulting in giving the employers who do play by the rules a way to verify their employees are legal; 3) hold undocumented workers accountable before they can apply for citizenship by passing national security and criminal background checks, and by paying taxes,...
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...Abstract Globalization has changed the way that goods are exchanged throughout the world. Currently between the U.S. and Mexico there is a huge problem with the illegal exchange of weapons. International crime organizations, such as Los Zetas, are becoming more powerful and this is putting the future of Mexico and all of Latin America in jeopardy. As these organizations become more powerful, federal and local governments are losing control. These weapons that are making there way into Mexico are making it easier for the drug cartels to move drugs up and down North and South America. Also weapons are durable goods, which means that these weapons making there way to Mexico can be sold to other crime organizations and used again and again. This paper will look at two cases in particular, in which weapons are crossing U.S. borders and making there way into the hands of Los Zetas and the consequences that have resulted. What Lay’s Ahead For Mexico Globalization is something that is changing the way that we live. No matter where you go in the world you almost always see influences from other countries in one form or another. It has both positive and negative affects within society. For example, poor countries that are rich in natural resources can distribute them to other countries to benefit their own economy. However, globalization can have negative affects as well. International crime organizations across the world are gaining more access to high-power weapons because...
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...From Sanchez Book -- 9/14 What does he mean by “Becoming Mexican American” How does this happen in Los Angeles ? 1. What is the reigning cultural attitude in the United States towards those who were not born here? a. Perception that the society is being burdened when reality they were helping build America. b. View point of immigration meant unauthorized, undocumented and that was a clear distinction that they dint belong here. c. The blame game and the end of the stick the immigrants got. d. The viewpoint that there is kind of a hostility, now that they are doctors and engineers. ** Important -> How can we define Mexican ethnicity in the early 20th century? * Sanchez Definition – Not a fixed set of customs surviving from Mexico, but a collective identity that emerged from shared daily experiences in the US. Statue of Liberty 2. Does this poem from the library museum in the statue’s base represent a genuine attitude? 3. How does the experience of Mexicans migrating across the border in the early 20th century represent a new model of Western immigration history that differs from the Eastern one? Immigration History :- * Immigrants were a central and necessary factor in the global industries transformation after 800 * Immigrants responded to the advance of market capitalism in agriculture – decline of individual and communal land ownership, growth of industrial market places. * Immigration was an incessant...
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...HOMELAND SECURITY Terry Davis CJAD 495 Professor R. Moser Introduction Since the birth of this nation, there has been concern for security and freedom of all the citizens of the United States. We have fought wars across our nation, across borders and across the globe, all in the pursuit to protect our freedom and the American way of life. There have been many threats against the American pursuit of freedom that started with the Revolutionary War, a young nation fighting to break away from a nation of strength. Then our battle over land expansion and the taking of the land from the Native Americans, some perceived them as savages or maybe even terrorist. Then we turned to secure our borders to prevent other nations from coming into our nation and grabbing up land. Then our pursuit of freedom expanded the globe and with other nations as we assisted in the attempt to spread democracy in countries struggling to become nations. In this attempt, there have been many enemies formed that despise the US and the pursuit of freedom. This has become a major concern of the US and on September 11, 2001, this concern became a reality. How could something so devastating be carried out against a world-leading nation? What was wrong with the infrastructure and how could it be fixed to prevent other terrorist attacks. The answer was to form a department in the federal government that would have the power to act and the power to share intelligence information. Terrorism and US Threats ...
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...Human trafficking and slavery have existed before written biblical time. No one can pinpoint its true origins though. Human trafficking is defined around the world as the recruiting, transporting, retention against there will of persons through fraud, threats, deception, monetary or other beneficial gain, for the purpose of exploiting these persons. (United Nations ESCAP (UNESCAP), 2010) I will discuss some of the history of human trafficking and what it has developed into, and some ways in which it is combated. The act of trafficking in people has been carried out for thousands of years; little to no information is available about its true beginning (Free Legal Advice Help, 2007). Written history notes that when two tribes or nations went to war, the defeating army would capture and enslave the remaining men, women, and children of the defeated army as punishment for transgressions against the winning army. They would be forced to work under very harsh conditions, with little food or water, and shelter was arcane at best. If work was not performed to their masters’ expectations, they would be beaten, sold, or put to death. Women would be used as sex slaves or house servants. Another point of view is that human trafficking began in the 1700s when children were forced to work off their parents debts in factories, on farms, or in the coal mines. These children would be forced to continue to work even after the debt had been repaid and would continue up through adulthood. (Free...
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...political parties now in days. The first issue we shall deliberate on is immigration because it has been a hot topic during the debates. The Texas Senator has a website discussing his stance on this issue and what he would do to change it like building a wall to prevent illegal immigrants or terrorist from crossing over to American soil. He also wants to triple the border patrol agents to secure the wall. He has also said that he would put an end to President Obama’s amnesty by rescinding all those that he gave out. He has always been trying to strengthen our immigration system. For an instance, when he filed an amendment that would block illegal immigrants that are living in the United States from ever getting their citizenship, strengthen border security, prohibit federal, state, and local benefits from giving assistants to undocumented immigrants. In an article from the U.S. News Cruz stated that: The amendments filed today to strengthen border security and reform our legal immigration system will not only bring meaningful, effective improvements to our immigration system, but also have a chance of becoming law. America is a nation of immigrants, built by immigrants and we need to honor that heritage by fixing our broken immigration system, while upholding the rule of law and championing legal immigration. (Metlzer) I believe he has the correct idea in penalizing those who have come into the United States without going through the proper channels. He realizes that we...
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...being in the country. Undocumented immigration is also commonly termed as “illegal” immigration, and what makes it illegal is when a person flees their native country into another country while violating the immigration laws of the destination country. Before getting into the ethical issues surrounding undocumented immigrants, it is important to understand both what causes people to become undocumented immigrants, and what effects undocumented immigrants have on their destination country. There are many factors which may lead a person to illegally cross a border into the United States. The most common reason is economic, but other reasons include persecution in the home country, genocide, or a desire to escape a war-torn country. The majority of illegal immigrants in the United States come from Central America, and in particular Mexico. In many of these cases, one family member (usually a man) will cross the border into the United States in order to make more money and send it home to his family. The minimum wage for a day of work in Mexico is roughly $4. (Daily Minimum Wages 2008) In contrast, a Mexican who comes to work in the United States will make about double that amount, but on an hourly basis. As one can tell, this is a drastic increase in income that would be very appealing to someone struggling through poverty in a foreign country. Another important factor which forces people to immigrate to the United States is persecution from a hostile government. One...
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...Guide to becoming a Federal Agent Three out of every five people that apply to a federal agency will not be accepted into that agency. This is due to the amount of preparation people put into the application process and also due to what that person has done in their life up to this part. Not only are you trying to make it through the weeding out process but you must also make yourself marketable, for at anytime you could be competing for a job with only thirty openings, yet there are two hundred people applying for the same job. Even though the process can be difficult, if you prepare correctly, you can speed up the process and will not be as much of a burden. The hardest part of this job is actually getting into the agency, after you are accepted, it is very easy to get into other agencies and you basically have a job for life. There are many federal agencies that you can join but the main ones that interest me are the law enforcement agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives agency, the Border Patrol and Customs Agency, and the National Security Agency. These are just some of the many federal law enforcement agencies that are out there, in which people in my field of study might be interested in. Some of these agencies are higher in stature than others and therefore may be harder to get into than others, so it is very smart to do your research before you apply to just anyone of these agencies. When looking at these agencies...
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