White House plan to hire more border agents raises vetting fear, ex-senior official says | US news

As the White House moves forward with its plan to impose “extreme vetting” on immigrants to the US, a former senior official at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has raised questions about the Trump administration’s ability to properly vet new hires as it fulfills its pledge to dramatically increase the number of border agents. James Tomsheck headed CBP’s internal affairs department during the agency’s last hiring surge and found the screening process failed to weed out people later charged with, and convicted of, corruption, primarily for smuggling drugs and people through their checkpoints....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/26/trump-plan-border-agents-vetting-james-tomsheck?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=215103&subid=22113254&CMP=GT_US_collection