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December 1st, 2017 
Awake Goy 
President Donald Trump doesn’t just want to build a wall along the southern border, he also wants Congress to hire 5,000 additional Border agents—a 25% increase—to patrol it. However, Border Patrol suffers from worse discipline, performance, and corruption problems than any other federal law enforcement agency, my study for the Cato Institute found.
Congress should fix those problems before even considering any new request for more agents.
Stories of Border Patrol misconduct and corruption have dribbled into the press for years. They range from ordinary corruption to brutal crimes. On the ordinary side, Border Patrol agents Raul and Fidel Villarreal were convicted of smuggling in around 1,000 illegal immigrants in exchange for $1 million. On the brutal side, Border Patrol agent Esteban Manzanares kidnapped, assaulted, and raped three illegal immigrant women he apprehended while on the job in 2014.
There are many other cases just like those, but the full extent of the problem is very unclear. Are these just a few bad apples? Or is it “conservative to estimate” that 5 percent of the Border Patrol force, adding up to about 1,000 agents, is corrupt, as James Tomsheck said after he was removed as head of one of the internal affairs departments that oversaw Border Patrol in 2014.
Government reports offer confusing, contradictory, and incomplete answers. According to evidence released under the Freedom of Information Act, 158 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees were convicted or charged with corruption from 2005 to 2016. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General found 358 corruption or misconduct convictions, but it doesn’t distinguish between government employees and civilians who conspired with them. CBP further complicates this mess by distinguishing between “mission-compromising” convictions, which include drug and immigrant smuggling, and “non-mission-compromising” ones, which include sexually assaulting detainees and murder.
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