In the administration’s effort to speed up Donald Trump’s national deportation force and quickly hire thousands of new immigration agents, the U.S. Border Patrol is debating axing a “rigorous” polygraph test for some new applicants, an exam “mandated by the Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010 … in response to reports of agents being targeted for bribes by drug cartels and human-smuggling operations.” Because lord almighty, what could ever go wrong with not properly vetting armed agents who round up human beings for a living?
“The polygraph has given us a difficult time,” said Border Patrol Chief Ronald Vitiello on Wednesday at a conference in San Antonio on border security. “Not a lot of people are passing.”
Critics, though, say the changes to the polygraph program would lower the bar to get into the Border Patrol and leave it more vulnerable to unsuitable candidates and corruption.
“If they actually can’t meet the standards, it doesn’t mean we lower the standards to get a larger number who can meet them,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) said in an interview.
According to the agency, “roughly 60% of all applicants fail the polygraph now in use. Other changes being considered include giving U.S. Customs and Border Protection broad authority over background checks for applicants and extending the probationary period for new agents to two years.”
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