US Border Patrol boosts graduation rate as National Guard begins leaving Mexican border
Tagged: border, border patrol, graduation rate, MexicoPosted on: July 23rd, 2007“The U.S. Border Patrol graduated a second class of recruits within a week for the first time Thursday, days after National Guard troops began leaving the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Border Patrol Academy in New Mexico, a border state, produced 39 graduates Monday and 36 more Thursday, part of a plan to add 6,000 agents by the end of the year for a total of about 18,000. About 14,000 agents are on the border now.
The new graduates will be sent to five sectors ”” San Diego; El Paso and Laredo in Texas; and Tucson and Yuma in Arizona.”
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