Date Posted: November 4, 2020
Deadline: December 31, 2008
Organization: U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Website: View Website
Wages/Salary: Entry level Agents while in the Academy average from 36K to 41K.
Between ages 18 and 40.
U.S. citizen.
Valid Drivers License.
No felonies or Domestic Violence in past.
Previous work experience. (No law enforcement experience required)
Willing to relocate to the Southwest Border with Mexico. (CA, AZ, NM, TX)
As a Border Patrol Agent, your primary focus would be to prevent terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States. Border Patrol Agents also detect and prevent the smuggling and unlawful entry of undocumented aliens into the United States, and apprehend those people found to be in violation of the immigration laws. Also, due to the increase in drug smuggling operations, the Border Patrol is the primary drug-interdicting agency along the land border between the ports of entry.
One of the most important duties performed by a Border Patrol Agent is known as “line-watch”. This involves the detection and apprehension of undocumented aliens and their smugglers by maintaining surveillance from a covert position, pursuing leads, responding to electronic sensor alarms, utilizing infrared scopes during night operations, using low-light level television systems, sighting aircraft, and interpreting and following tracks, marks, and other physical evidence. In addition, Border Patrol Agents perform traffic checks, traffic observation, city patrol transportation checks, and other administrative, intelligence, and anti-smuggling activities.