The immigration raids across Los Angeles have all the hallmarks of Gregory Bovino's Kern County sweep, which a federal judge ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection would have the authority to waive polygraph tests in the hiring of former law-enforcement officers or Armed Services members for Border Patrol positions under a ...

DHS currently administers polygraph exams during the hiring process for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and agents in order to determine "suitability for employment" and "in support ...

Border Patrol uses a TES-C polygraph which is stated to reduce “average exam times [and] the number of retests”, instead of the “Law Enforcement Pre-Employment Test … the standard for screening ...

The screening process includes polygraph exams and drug screenings. Border Patrol staffing peaked at 21,444 agents ... according to federal job postings. Former police officers and military police can ...

In Violet’s dorm room, Officer Hahn worked ... background checks on some Border Patrol applicants, modifying the entrance exam, and waiving the mandatory polygraph test (which two-thirds of ...

One of them, Isacson said, is the extensive background screening for prospective agents, which includes a polygraph test ... which are staffed by CBP officers, not Border Patrol agents.

Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), is supporting the Anti-Border Corruption Improvement Act, which would remove the polygraph requirement ... to me is the shortage of CBP officers,” Gallego said in a ...

"CBP should be able to waive the polygraph for those who have shown they can hold public trust through current employment as a law enforcement officer or holding a clearance in the military. This will ...

Attorney David Zugman has represented some of the Border Patrol agents in the field, as well as CBP officers at ports ... about 65% of all applicants fail the agency’s polygraph examination, while the ...

later worked a Drug Enforcement Administration contract and was a police officer in Georgia when he applied for a job with Border Patrol. "When I got to the polygraph stage, it just blew up in my ...