In the News was mentioned that a Texas Border Patrol Officer was arrested for shooting a man, which brings to light the plight of the Border Patrol Department in general.
A dilemma confronts the United States' immigration work force, one that goes far beyond sealing borders to would-be terrorists, drug smugglers and undocumented migrants. How do you secure the homeland if some of those guarding the gates are dishonest?
On the California border, at least nine immigration officers have been arrested or sentenced on corruption-related charges in the past 12 months. One of those officers turned out to be an illegal immigrant himself.
On the Texas border, at least 10 officers have been charged or sentenced in corruption schemes over the past year, including four Border Patrol agents who admitted taking money to let both drugs and migrants pass.
The numbers are just a snapshot, but the troublesome picture is clear, and some type of rectification is required.
WHAT IF ANYTHING DO YOU FEEL COULD BE DONE TO HELP RECTIFY THIS ONGOING, EVER INCREASING PROBLEM?
Border Patrol Incident
Border Patrol Incident
cars;541403 wrote: In the News was mentioned that a Texas Border Patrol Officer was arrested for shooting a man, which brings to light the plight of the Border Patrol Department in general.
A dilemma confronts the United States' immigration work force, one that goes far beyond sealing borders to would-be terrorists, drug smugglers and undocumented migrants. How do you secure the homeland if some of those guarding the gates are dishonest?
On the California border, at least nine immigration officers have been arrested or sentenced on corruption-related charges in the past 12 months. One of those officers turned out to be an illegal immigrant himself.
On the Texas border, at least 10 officers have been charged or sentenced in corruption schemes over the past year, including four Border Patrol agents who admitted taking money to let both drugs and migrants pass.
The numbers are just a snapshot, but the troublesome picture is clear, and some type of rectification is required.
WHAT IF ANYTHING DO YOU FEEL COULD BE DONE TO HELP RECTIFY THIS ONGOING, EVER INCREASING PROBLEM?
It’s moral relativism Cars. The Boarder Patrol is reflection of the society it comes from.
I worked for a large organization. The “Ethics Coordinator” and I were talking one day. He said, “we teach and teach and it doesn’t seem to change anything…we need to start hiring people who are already ethical”. The problem is that those people are the people who are more and more in demand. They don’t have to take low paying jobs and there aren’t that many of them anyway.
I think the Boarder Patrol is just one of the many symptoms of a society in trouble and unless you send them all back to childhood and teach them right from wrong, there isn’t a whole lot we can do. We have a very long train to turn around and we had better start now.
A dilemma confronts the United States' immigration work force, one that goes far beyond sealing borders to would-be terrorists, drug smugglers and undocumented migrants. How do you secure the homeland if some of those guarding the gates are dishonest?
On the California border, at least nine immigration officers have been arrested or sentenced on corruption-related charges in the past 12 months. One of those officers turned out to be an illegal immigrant himself.
On the Texas border, at least 10 officers have been charged or sentenced in corruption schemes over the past year, including four Border Patrol agents who admitted taking money to let both drugs and migrants pass.
The numbers are just a snapshot, but the troublesome picture is clear, and some type of rectification is required.
WHAT IF ANYTHING DO YOU FEEL COULD BE DONE TO HELP RECTIFY THIS ONGOING, EVER INCREASING PROBLEM?
It’s moral relativism Cars. The Boarder Patrol is reflection of the society it comes from.
I worked for a large organization. The “Ethics Coordinator” and I were talking one day. He said, “we teach and teach and it doesn’t seem to change anything…we need to start hiring people who are already ethical”. The problem is that those people are the people who are more and more in demand. They don’t have to take low paying jobs and there aren’t that many of them anyway.
I think the Boarder Patrol is just one of the many symptoms of a society in trouble and unless you send them all back to childhood and teach them right from wrong, there isn’t a whole lot we can do. We have a very long train to turn around and we had better start now.
Schooling results in matriculation. Education is a process that changes the learner.
Border Patrol Incident
Clint;541419 wrote: It’s moral relativism Cars. The Boarder Patrol is reflection of the society it comes from.
I worked for a large organization. The “Ethics Coordinator” and I were talking one day. He said, “we teach and teach and it doesn’t seem to change anything…we need to start hiring people who are already ethical”. The problem is that those people are the people who are more and more in demand. They don’t have to take low paying jobs and there aren’t that many of them anyway.
I think the Boarder Patrol is just one of the many symptoms of a society in trouble and unless you send them all back to childhood and teach them right from wrong, there isn’t a whole lot we can do. We have a very long train to turn around and we had better start now.
You're absolutely right Clint, but finding "already ethical" people for low paying jobs (The arrested BPO in the news earned $21,000/yr) is as you've said is difficult at best, to find. There doesn't seem to be a viable solution to this ever mounting problem.
I worked for a large organization. The “Ethics Coordinator” and I were talking one day. He said, “we teach and teach and it doesn’t seem to change anything…we need to start hiring people who are already ethical”. The problem is that those people are the people who are more and more in demand. They don’t have to take low paying jobs and there aren’t that many of them anyway.
I think the Boarder Patrol is just one of the many symptoms of a society in trouble and unless you send them all back to childhood and teach them right from wrong, there isn’t a whole lot we can do. We have a very long train to turn around and we had better start now.
You're absolutely right Clint, but finding "already ethical" people for low paying jobs (The arrested BPO in the news earned $21,000/yr) is as you've said is difficult at best, to find. There doesn't seem to be a viable solution to this ever mounting problem.
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Border Patrol Incident
Are you referring to the "Minute Men Militia", because those guys are just racist arseholes in my opinion. I think its a bunch of overzealous rednecks with no education that patrol the borders, especially the ones to the South.
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