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Originally Posted by agzg
Common misconception. CBP employees (especially those who patrol the spaces between points of entry) typically go through a Federal background investigation which can usually be done electronically - it's a more in-depth credit/criminal history check.
CBP employees do not deal with the type of information that would require a security clearance to have. ICE employees do, especially because they've been tasked with aiding the FBI in the monitoring of foreign-born terrorist suspects (This is why I say that ICE and CBP do not really enforce the same laws).
About the airports - that may be true, but CBP (especially the patrol) is less concerned with legitimate points of entry than they are with the spaces between. Generally, the spaces between are land-based. If you get stopped in an airport, it's a Customs and Border Protection agent. If you're getting stopped on land, away from a legitimate point of entry, it's Customs and Border patrol personnel (also part of CBP). Which is who we're talking about in this thread, mostly. My mistake for not clarifying.
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I'm going to have to still disagree on you in regards to the background investigation requirements. How did you come upon this "knowledge", are you an employee of CBP? The thing you aren't pointing out is that CBP is the parent org to several seperatly operating agencies, OFO and USBP being two of them. All of the agencies Have their own requirements and standards, so lumping everything into "CBP" doesn't work.
BTW- I've never heard a USBP Agent referred to as a Customs and Border Patrol Agent.