HOUSTON — The arrest of a Border Patrol supervisor on allegations that he killed four women calls new attention to the agency’s problems keeping rogue officers off its force as it faces intense pressure to hire thousands more agents. The Border Patrol and prosecutors portrayed Ortiz as an outlier who is not representative of the thousands of employees working for the agency around the country. “I would hate for this to tarnish the great work that those men and women do,” Border Patrol chief Carla Provost said at a news conference alongside prosecutors and other law enforcement officials. The Border Patrol has struggled for many years to hire enough agents. “Many residents along the Southwest border don’t trust these immigration agencies, particularly the Border Patrol,” she said.

Source: National Post September 18, 2018 16:18 UTC