Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has seen a massive boost in recruiting numbers after years of low morale under former ...

CBP is boosting its recruitment incentive to up to $20,000 for newly appointed Border Patrol agent applicants as the agency faces hiring challenges. The incentive is available for applicants who enter ...

Dan Gooding is a Newsweek reporter based in New York City. His focus is reporting on immigration and border security. He has covered immigration issues extensively, including the root causes of ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is enjoying historically high recruiting, with agents happy the job is back to law enforcement after four years of “diaper” duty and “Uber” shuttling ...

After previous recruitment attempts had limited success ... where you might be working by yourself.” Of nearly 21,000 Border Patrol agents, only 5 percent are women, a share that has remained ...

Under Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks, Texas’ first border czar, the first quarter of 2025 marks “the most successful four-month recruitment stretch in the agency’s history.” In January ...

He would also seek to implement recruitment and retention bonuses ... Trump and Biden all sought at various times to increase Border Patrol staffing, but those efforts have largely been unsuccessful.