border patrol agents

Introduces readers to jobs with the Border Patrol, highlighting this federal force's history, importance, and locations.

"... has realistic descriptions of how police officers, FBI agents, crime science investigators, and other law enforcement officers do their work. It has statistics on future growth in various jobs and compensation workers receive"--Amazon.com.

Looks at what is needed to become a border patrol agent in the United States.

Freakishly tall Brandon Vanderkool is pushed by his dairy farmer father into joining the Border Patrol and proves to be very adept at catching drug smugglers and illegal aliens trying to cross the ditch between British Columbia and Washington State, but his efforts do not necessarily please local residents who are not averse to turning a blind eye--for a small fee--to the traffic between borders.

Looks at careers in the field of counterterrorism, focusing on the work done by border patrol agents and other jobs in border protection, reviews the history of customs and border protection, and discusses the establishment of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency in 2003 and its possible future.