U.S. border patrol

[wolve]

Does anyone know when the next job vacancy is opening up. Hopefully someone knows and may respond th this post.

[EXCOP2000]

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/enforcement/border_patrol/

I didn't go any further into looking for the jobs announcement but this should get you close to the information. I know you have to pass a language test that is not spanish but a "made up" language and they see if you can learn and recognize it easily. You'll learn plenty of Spanish once in their academy from what I know.

Personally, IMO unless you really have a desire to work the border or are from the Southwest area I would consider another option. The only thing would be if you are just trying to break into the Federal LE system and are willing to pay your dues. You have to realize how life will be for you. Working late at night probably, sometimes by yourself or with little backup in a very isolated area. You could be outmanned and outgunned at any moment due to drug trafficers who won't think twice about killing you if you are in their way. Extremely dangerous even by LE standards. You would be like a finger in a hole in a dam that is overflowing with illegal immigrants...especially with the new proposal of "guest workers" getting legal status as long as they are within the border by a certain date. (I happen to like the President but he is angering many people with this proposal) Just my 2 cents but I would try anything else Federal first. FBI Secret Service, U.S. Marshalls, Customs, ATF (I would say DEA but again, any time you are in the direct line of large quantities of drugs and money the danger factor for LE personnel multiplies)... hope this helps.

[LMC]

EXCOP2000,

No doubt it's a dangerous job, but someone has got to do it.

[EXCOP2000]

11 Bodies Dug Up Near U.S.-Mexico Border


By REYES RAMOS
The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 27, 2004; 10:36 PM


CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Police have dug up 11 bodies in the backyard of a house in this Mexican border city, in what they called the latest evidence of a growing drug battle being waged along the U.S.-Mexico frontier.

The victims were apparently rivals of the Vicente Carrillo drug gang, and were executed with "extreme violence" as long as six months to one year ago, Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha said. Several of the victims had been strangled or suffocated.

"This is a war among drug traffickers," Macedo de la Concha said. "It is a confrontation between cartels for territory."

"The Vicente Carrillo cartel is known for seizing and executing rivals or people who failed to carry out orders," he told reporters in Mexico City. Referring to the 11 bodies, he said "as far as we know, they were victims of organized crime, given the way they were executed."

Officials said Tuesday they believed they had found all the bodies buried at the property, but they were still searching to make sure none remained.

"If we have to demolish the house, we're going to demolish it," Deputy Attorney General Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos said in Mexico City.

Several victims had been strangled or suffocated, Vasconcelos said.

Mexican investigators said the property appeared to be a safe house for Humberto Santillan Tabares, who was arrested Jan. 15 across the border in El Paso, Texas. Mexican authorities identified Santillan as one of Carrillo's chief lieutenants, alleged to be one of Mexico's major drug traffickers.

Leticia Zamarripa, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, confirmed that Santillan was arrested in El Paso with more than 10 pounds of cocaine, although she said his first name was listed as Heriberto.

Drug smugglers often use several different names, and it was unclear which was Santillan's real first name. He was in federal custody awaiting trial, and no date has been set.

Four bodies were found over the weekend, and seven others were uncovered under a concrete patio that officials ripped up Monday.

Authorities said they also discovered three bags of clothing. Some of it was identified by the relatives of two people who disappeared on Jan. 14.

Neighbors said the house, in a quiet, middle-class neighborhood, was the home of a couple with two children. Asking that their names not be used, they told reporters that they often saw people dressed as federal police officers coming and going, but noted nothing else peculiar.

Drug groups often pose as police, but sometimes also enlist corrupt lawmen.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says Carrillo is one of the key figures who took over a Ciudad Juarez-based drug organization that had been led by his brother Amado, who died in 1997 after plastic surgery in Mexico City.

In July, U.S. federal prosecutors arrested an FBI translator in El Paso who was accused of selling sensitive information that was believed to have reached Carrillo.

The bodies appear to be part of a recent wave of drug-related violence - and not connected to a notorious string of murders of young women here over the past decade.

Authorities say the arrests of several major traffickers created a power vacuum, and the resulting turf battle has left dozens dead along the border and in Mexico's interior.

On Sunday, an apparently drug-related shootout killed three people in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. Federal officials have said deserters from an elite Mexican army unit who formed a drug gang have been fighting for control of that border town.

On Friday, a shootout between police and several presumed drug traffickers in the northern city of Anahuac, 50 miles southwest of Nuevo Laredo, killed two state police officers and another person.

Authorities also say traffickers apparently were involved in the ambush slaying of two federal agents and a soldier last week on a highway west of Mexico City and in many of the 57 slayings so far this year in the northwestern state of Sinaloa.

Santiago Vasconcelos said the violence was evidence the battle against traffickers was serious.

"This makes all of us uneasy," he said, "but it is better to have these incidents, clashes over the application of the law, than to permit in silence" the operation of the gangs.


© 2004 The Associated Press

[ngcsubutterbar]

look at it this way, if you aren't before you go in you're damn sure to bilingual when you get out.

[leathernek]

Check out www.honorfirst.com this is the best source of information for anyone interested in becoming a BPA, as for the job vacancy, it should be opening up in March. Check the forums for more info.

[Group9]

It's not a bad place to learn a lot quick. I've noticed that the guys we get from the Border Patrol, even the ones with only two or three years on, are pretty squared away. You have to learn the job quick there. And you will learn Spanish, not a bad dividend for LE jobs later.

But, you might like it and and want to stay.

[u538]

Anyone know abought there trucks and suburbans or how to get one? thank's

[tomasurii]

Wolve,

I have it on good authority that the vacancy will reopen on March 12th. (Right around the corner.)

But. No hiring for California is projected in the immediate future, only AZ, TX, and NM.

Someone mentioned it already, but Ray's www.honorfirst.com website is the best resource out there.

[bob95321]

http://www.customs.gov/xp/cgov/careers/
Vacancy Announcement NO. BPA-04-1
Opens: 03-12-2004 Open Continuous

why all the complaints about border patrol? it's the first job i ever had that i really like.

of course, where i work still doesn't seem like home. and when i do go home to visit, it's aggravating to see all the people who would otherwise be running if they saw a marked bp unit. and it takes a few hours to process the paperwork for just one 5 minute-or-less bailout and footchase (that was NOT a pursuit). but, at least it's better than traffic checkpoint duty. freight trains are fun--unless you catch OTM's and then you're back to a couple hours of paperwork.

but really, it is fun. tracking through the brush (not in the sand like they show on tv--hah! that's looks real tough!) is fun when you catch the group, and how many people get to do that?

[Group9]

Anyone know abought there trucks and suburbans or how to get one? thank's

You don't want a truck or suburban that the Border Patrol is done with. They really wear them out in the environment they have to drive them in.

[EMS1]

OK, im getting my test notice by mail.
and the study guide.

so lets go ,put me in....lol

[coucousis]

Safer to be a BPA at the Canadian border I guess!!!:D