WASHINGTON — U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) is opening up hiring to an array of personnel, including those who left during the administration of President Joe Biden, to sustain the success of CBP under President Donald Trump, a top adviser tells Breitbart News.
Breitbart News caught up with Senior Adviser Ron Vitiello, who formerly served as chief of border patrol and acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on Thursday in the nation’s capital.
“There’s a lot going on” at CBP, Vitiello said. “The Reconciliation gives us an opportunity to hire a lot more frontline personnel, some office staff, as well as professional staff. But the story at the border is even better.”
“I mean, the numbers are incredibly low,” he added. “As you’ve seen the President and others, the secretary in the press bragging on what the front line has done: zero releases into the U.S. of people who have crossed illegally, and just a real cohesive application within the interagency, something I’ve never really seen, where the State Department, Health and Human Services, ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], ourselves, the Department of Justice, Department of War, everybody working together to
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