The letter to DHS and CBP is in response to a Government Accountability Office report detailing the role of unauthorized critical incident teams, which operated without oversight
A trio of San Diego congress members led by Rep. Juan Vargas are calling on two federal agencies to provide more answers about how seven Border Patrol sectors along the U.S.-Mexico boundary were allowed to operate 'homegrown' critical incident teams for decades without oversight. The letter to Border Patrol's parent agencies — signed Vargas, Rep. Sara Jacobs, Rep. Scott Peters and Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro — comes in response to a report published earlier this month by the U.S.
CBP disbanded the sector-specific units in 2022 and shifted the responsibility for investigating critical incidents to the Office of Professional Responsibility. That office is a separate arm of CBP created in 2016 to investigate serious misconduct and potential criminality by CBP personnel.
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