Basic police procedure like crime scene preservation isn’t generally taught at the Border Patrol Academy. Instead, recruits study immigration law, participate in fitness training, and learn high ...

The Border Patrol Academy started its first training class at Camp Chigas Dec. 3, 1934, with 32 men reporting for training. Classroom instruction was four hours a day, and there was no physical ...

ARTESIA, N.M. - A class of 48 aspiring Border Patrol agents has become the first to begin training at an academy closer to the Mexican border they will soon be protecting. For years, new agents ...

As Chief of the Border Patrol Academy, Walters led and managed all aspects of Border Patrol Academy basic and advanced training at FLETC locations in Glynco, Georgia, and Artesia, New Mexico. He ...

Earlier this month, he served as a training academy instructor for Border Patrol chaplains, whose numbers have almost doubled in the last four years. It’s an effort to help agents motivated by the ...

Pentagon eyes more than 1K active-duty troops for southern border Total of 10K eventually expected Agents receiving training in PIT ... administration, with Border Patrol agents once again being ...

Border Patrol agents are tasked with enforcing ... Those are the scenarios that chaplains-in-training practice role-playing at the academy. They also learn about communication and family dynamics ...

UVALDE, Texas – Nearly half of the Border Patrol agents who responded to the Robb Elementary shooting did not have active shooter training beyond what they received while in the USBP Academy ...

Border Report recently visited the RGV Sector’s horse patrol training academy in Edinburg, and went on a night ride along with Border Patrol agents on horseback where several migrants who were ...