Trump needs to announce the hiring of 20 thousand more Border Patrol and declare victory, say he built a human wall which is way better, Then deport them on buses all the way to Oaxaca.
There are over 2000 border patrol open positions. Why would you want to add 20,000 more to that number. There are problems with hiring and retention in the Border Patrol and ICE, especially the Border Patrol. It's really difficult to hold on to the agents that they have. They're incredibly low-paid. They're stationed often at these isolated places along the border. Moral is poor and public support is very mixed.
Most of the border patrol agents are Hispanic and come from the Southwest often living within a hundred miles of the border. About half of the agents are stationed near cities and towns such as El Paso, Sand Diego, and Brownsville. Most of the other agents are stationed in remote areas where access to good housing and amenities that we find in most cites are scarce. This means long drives from the cities or living in small out of way desert towns. The weather, the desert, having to speak Spanish, low pay, dangerous work, and living conditions make it very difficult to recruit nationwide which is what is needed to hire and maintain a large law enforcement agency.
Government recruiting success has been so bad, the government turned to private industry to recruit new agents. A contract for 300 million dollars was awarded to Accenture, a consulting firm in Nov. 2017. After 2 years, 60 million dollars of the contract was expended and only 33 agents were hired, nearly 2 million dollars per new hire.
Also, there's a lot of corruption issues in the Border Patrol. Being relatively low paid and often working alone in the middle of nowhere apprehending drug traffickers that can offer agents a year's salary or more just for looking the other way creates a morale problem in the agency. There are always suspicions of being on the take. And the high turnover only increases those suspicions.
Border agents, and the risks at the edge of the line
Why It's So Hard To Recruit And Retain Border Patrol Agents