Border Patrol to hire staff to help with migrant processing
By: The Associated Press, policeone.com
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Border Patrol said Tuesday it’s working to hire additional staff to manage the processing of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Officials said the aim is to take the burden off uniformed agents, who can then go back into the field. Border resources are stretched thin as the U.S. manages increasingly more families coming from Central America.
Agents said they are spending more than half their time feeding and caring for migrant families. Paperwork processing alone can take three hours per family. There were 58,474 families apprehended last month.
