Homeland Security Dept cannot prove need for Trump's promised officer surge

The Hill: The Homeland Security Department's inspector general says that President Trump's plan to hire an additional 15,000 Border Patrol agents and immigration officers is unrealistic and may be unnecessary.

Within days of taking office, Trump signed executive orders calling on the agency to hire 5,000 Border Patrol agents and another 10,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

But according to a report released last week by the Homeland Security's watchdog, the agency would have to take on a pool of 750,000 applicants in order to hire 5,000 Border Patrol Agents. Likewise, ICE would have to vet more than 500,000 applicants to hire 10,000 personnel.

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