Border Patrol agents would be willing to give up time-and-a-half overtime pay if it meant they would not have to be furloughed as part of mandated federal spending cuts, their union president testified Friday.... Read more»
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National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd, shown at a hearing earlier this week, said Friday his union would be willing to give up time-and-a-half overtime pay in order to avoid furloughs.
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If BPAs and supervisory BPAs assigned to sectors across the nation on temporary or permanent details working administrative/clerical duties, stopped ILLEGALLY and FRAUDULENTLY putting in for and receiving AUO pay - there would be a surplus of hundreds of millions of dollars/year which would more than adequately make up for any CBP budget shortfalls. Each agent earns up to $35,000/year in AUO pay. within Tucson Sector alone, hundreds of agents working at their desks each day receive this pay benefit ILLEGALLY. What’s worse - supervisors are approving this pay, AND put in for and receive it themselves. It is outright fraud and is illegal and they all know it. But, they continue to do it and believe this to be an ENTITLEMENT. The public needs to know about this and demand oversight and management of this pay benefit. Every taxpayer needs to hold the chief of border patrol accountable for this fraud and make him address this abuse.