Six months into fiscal Year 2025 and 121 CBP agents have been arrested for crimes they deport migrants for.
According to CBP’s own stats, over twenty employees are arrested each month for crimes ranging from minor traffic violations to serious violent felonies.
We are halfway through the federal fiscal calendar, which means it is time for an update on Customs and Border Protection’s Employee Arrest data. Please remember that CBP is the parent agency for the Border Patrol and the Air and Marine Patrol and the statistics include all three agencies. CBP requires employees to voluntarily report these arrests. This means their statistics are likely an undercount.
Breakdown of arrests:
- Drug/alcohol related ……………………………………………………………….….52
- Domestic/family violence ……………………………………………………………26
- Assault …… ………………………………………………………………………………....8
- Crimes involving children including sexual assault ……………..………….7
- Sexual misconduct …..…………………………………………………………………..4
- Corruption …………………………………………………………………………………..5
- Impeding criminal justice system ……………..…………………………………..3
- Weapons violations ………………………………………………………………………1
- Threatening behavior ………………….………………………………………………..1
- Property ……………..……………………………………………………………………….2
- Traffic .………………………………………………………………………………………..6
- White collar crime ………………………………………………………………………..1
- Minor offenses .……………………………………………………………………………5
As CBP likes to note, these voluntarily reported arrests by employees are less than 1% of the total workforce. The 1% statistic is a goal for all law enforcement agencies. It also happens to be the same percentage of crimes committed by the migrants apprehended by Border Patrol crossing in between the ports of entry. The good feeling you get by reading that less than 1% of CBP employees are arrested every year for crimes ranging from murder to DUI is apparently not the feeling they want you to have about the migrants they apprehend who also have less than 1% arrest rate for crimes. Please see:
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At the same time, the media is failing to report arrests of employees. For the last few years, my sources from California to Texas have reported Border Patrol requesting local and state law enforcement not report arrests of their agents to the media. The most recent example of this was the 2025 sentencing of Tucson Border Patrol BORSTAR Deputy Commander Efren Cornejo who was arrested in 2019. Border Patrol and CBP managed to keep his arrest for sexually abusing his daughter and a step-daughter for eleven years a secret until just before sentencing in 2025.
In general, the media covers about 10% of CBP employee arrests. In the first six months of fiscal year 2025, only four arrests have been covered by the press. All four were CBP employees. This is an average of 3.3% of all 121 CBP arrests.
0% of Border Patrol and 0% of Air and Marine employee arrests have been covered by the media for fiscal year 2025. These crimes include five arrests for crimes against children, at least seven arrests for domestic violence by Border Patrol agents alone and twenty-six arrests for alcohol and drug abuse arrests.
Air and Marine Patrol versus Border Patrol arrests for FY 2025.
Fiscal year 2025 arrests of CBP employees covered by media:
- CBP Officer Amer Aldarawsheh arrested for PPP loan fraud.
- CBP Director of the Center for Excellence and Expertise over Automotive and Aerospace Engineering was charged with attempting to defraud the FEMA.
- CBP Officers Farlis Almonte and Ricardo Rodriguez were arrested for corruption in allowing smuggling vehicles through their lanes at the port.
Unlike the migrants that CBP sends to torture prisons in El Salvador and elsewhere, CBP employees can maintain their jobs even after arrests for sexual assault, assault, assault with deadly weapons and DUIs. Even a conviction for DUI is not sufficient to fire many employees.
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