Border Patrol seeks to add more black agents - Agency, which has just 158, tries to raise its profile

Nearly 1,500 miles from his post at the Mexican border, Cyril Atherton, a Border Patrol agent, embarked on one of his trickiest missions.

He was in Memphis recruiting young African Americans to an agency few had ever heard of, trying to entice them to the hot, arid Southwest, where few black people live, for a job that requires learning Spanish proficient enough to know if their lives are in danger while arresting as many as 100 people at a time.”*

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