Roughly one-quarter of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who responded to a survey plan to quit their jobs in the coming year, according to Department of Homeland Security Office Inspector General Joseph Cuffari.
Cuffari said neither agency has a plan to deal with staffing issues that may arise due to problems cited by the agents. These include an increased workload, irregular border policies, being assigned tasks unrelated to law enforcement, lack of adequate resources, and working excessive overtime.
Cuffari said the survey was sent to 577,000 CBP and ICE agents. He presented the report to the House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs hearing on June 6. More than 9,300 agents responded to the survey….