Border agents recruited for Iraq duty
Sat May 19, 3:36 PM ET


PHOENIX - A military contractor is recruiting current and former agents with the U.S. Border Patrol to teach Iraqis how to secure their national borders.
The U.S. State Department has asked Virginia-based DynCorp International to find 120 people with Customs and Border Enforcement experience to go to [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. for the training.
The company already has 700 police trainers in Iraq. The department made the request for border security trainers in late March.
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said she was worried that DynCorp's effort is distracting from security along the U.S.-Mexico border. She and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson wrote President Bush this week to say the deal "makes no sense."
"We should be focused on supporting our nation's security efforts along the Mexican and Canadian border instead of hampering (the Customs and Border Patrol) by sending our best agents to a war zone in Iraq," the governors wrote.
Agent Shannon Stevens, a Border Patrol spokeswoman, said the number of personnel DynCorp is looking for is "a very small number compared to the agents we have."
DynCorp is offering recruits $134,100 for a one-year stay, plus a $25,000 signing bonus. The first $90,000 in income is tax free, and housing and food are free, company spokesman Gregory Lagana said.
Border Patrol agents with at least two years' experience make roughly $55,000.
Arizona's Tucson sector employs 2,600 agents, and there are more than 13,350 nationwide.

And where do the contractors get their money from? Our Government right? And how does the Government get it's money? Geese, this needs to stop. How many border guards are we gonna loose over this?

I agree with Hrd on this one. What are these border patrol agents going to teach these Iraqis? Their not doing their job here.

They are not ALLOWED to do their job here, and when they do then they go to jail. Big difference.

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this is a joke..Iraqis won't stand up as soldiers and work...their benchmark to take over was yesterday..they're cowards...why does anyone think that Iraqis will work hard as Border Agents/ security????for 2 maybe 3 generations if not more they have been lazy cowards who could only fight in a mob style or beat/ kill their own wives, daughters.....think this will change?????No they'll hold a weapon on the border sure enough..then hide when any force comes..or else take bibe money...sad but true..these people deserve no freedom/ democracy because it was handed to them, not earned....Our forefathers had help with England true...however they lead the way not followed...

The same reason our border patrol shouldn't be there as our military should not be there. They don't care enough about American way to be like America. That is there country. They join the iraqi military just long enough to get the training, gun and uniform, then turn around and use it all against us. How many guns, munnition, soldiers have come up missing. How many times have they had to change the uniforms because they were using ours to disgues themselfs?
BRING EM HOME!!!!!!!!