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I have a question about Customs and Border Protection. Please answer these questions if you know what you are talking about.?

I am 17 years old. I am going to the university of Maine.

What steps should I take towards becoming a BP agent or CBP officer?

Certain study?

What age?

Do they accept younger applicants?

Academy life?

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  • 5 years ago
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    First, i suggest for you to finish school, better if you get any criminal science topic at college as it will improve some qualifications when they hire you but you still need to take the entrance exam that have arithmetic , reasoning and some grammar, for the Border patrol have a Spanish section or an Artificial language section that is weird, it tests you for the AL how fast can you learn a language, for me i took Spanish because thats my natal language...

    then you will recieve a fitness test , in other terms get in shape if youre not.

    and the last test for some reason instead first of second, the lie detector test, this can go eaither way in a second, answer everything truthfully and calm down because it is long.

    Above age 18 i think and the maximun age they get is 35 or 38 , veterans can qualify if older.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    The Border Patrol is actually very ineffective at interdiction. I once read a report about the Border Patrol from GAO. That report said the border guards concede 70% of illegal activity at the border. This ineffectiveness is because checkpoints (roadblocks) are random and far away from the border. Here is part of my summary of the report (sourced in this post):

    "An analysis of the aforementioned GAO report criticized Border Patrol for its ineffective non-border checkpoints vs. actual border crossings. It stated, “There were 704,000 interdictions at actual border crossings in 2008; however, there were only 17,000 interdictions at internal non-border checkpoints. This 17,000 figure represents 2.4% of interdictions, but it took 4% of agents to accomplish this goal.” The analysis further states regarding the Tucson sector that, “Actual border interdictions numbered 320,000, but internal non-border checkpoint interdictions numbered 1,800. This means the number of interdictions per agent at the actual border was 116, but the number of interdictions per agent at internal non-border checkpoints was only 8.” The analysis finally questions why the stated goal of DHS “is to detect and apprehend 30% of major illegal activity [at the border]." It asked why 70% of illegal activity is conceded at the actual border."

    In other words, border guards WELL INSIDE THE BORDER at checkpoints were much less effective than guards at the actual border. This would make sense since the bottleneck at the border becomes so spread out after one enters. This common sense however, is lost on DHS.

    Edit: Here is a video (below) of Terry Bressi of CheckpointUSA.org schooling a border guard because she is not doing her job. Why is she not doing her job? Because she is not even at the actual border.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KFQnVsvu_I

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Experience in the military as an MP.

    No, they don't.

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