Me, a serious public management professor who studies government performance: The fact that so many Customs and Border Protection officials don't actually need to check customs or be near the border suggests some room for rightsizing their operation. https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1286355124697391104
We also need to reverse the policy that defines "the border" in a way that is unrecognizable to most Americans even as it makes them subservient to the CBP. If you can't see the border, it's not the border.
Places where I have lived in: Syracuse, Ann Arbor, College Station, Madison (WI), Washington DC.
Per current US policy, all of these are border towns. Chances are you live in a border town too, you just didn't know it.
https://www.justsecurity.org/65136/congress-tackles-the-100-mile-border-zone-for-federal-checkpoints/
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