Since President Donald Trump took office, the US Border Patrol has seen an unprecedented surge in applications from men and women who want to serve at the US border.
From January to April 2025, USBP received 34,650 applications, representing a 44% increase over the same four months in 2024.
“This historic surge in applicants directly reflects a new national commitment to border security under the leadership of President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” he said.
The first quarter of 2025 marks “an expansion of the most successful four-month adoption in the agency’s history” under the Chief of the Border Patrol of Texas’ first border emperor Mike Banks.
In January, the month when Trump took office received the most applications in recorded history since the agency was founded in 1924.
“The continuous surge in applications speaks to the amount of pride and purpose that Americans will see when joining the US Border Patrol,” Banks said. “We thank President Trump and Secretary Noam for their leadership and commitment to strengthening employees and mission preparation.”
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The increase in applicants also emphasizes the public’s confidence in Trump administration’s enforcement priorities and a sense of purpose that Americans feel when answering calls to protect their homelands, CBP said.
Also, after agents with targeted employment incentives strengthened outreach, recruiting benefits increased, contacting veterans and law enforcement experts to consider serving in the Border Patrol with mission response experience.
The news is a reversal of morale under the Biden administration when agents retire, resign or commit suicide in record numbers.
At the height of the border crisis under the Biden administration, 17 Border Patrol agents committed suicide in 2022. At a 2023 parliamentary hearing, Chris Cabrera, vice president of the Border Border Patrol Council, testified to what difficult border patrol agents are experiencing before Congress. It has been reported.
“To put that in perspective,” he said, a unit of about 35,000 at the New York Police Department lost four people due to suicide.
“We see a lot of things that the average person doesn’t see. It’s about what the hardest people are going to do with their kids,” he said.
“It’s a tough job, and it’s becoming more and more difficult by the fact that we’re not in a position to do the work we’re trained,” he said. Under the Biden administration, they were ordered to release foreigners to the state instead of processing them for removal. These orders violated federal law, he argued that President Donald Trump was terminated by implementing a “catch-and-release” policy.
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At the time, he and others alleged that the border patrol needed thousands more agents to respond to the crisis, and added about 19,300 work on the USBP at the time.
Under the Biden administration, USBP’s turnover rate was 6.9%-72% higher than that in the Field Operations office, and “were expected to rise to over 9% by 2028.”
Under Trump, approved by the Border Patrol Coalition, that trajectory was reversed in just a few months.
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