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(NewsNation) — The U.S. Border Patrol is known for securing the nation’s border, but the bureau includes an elite tactical portion that is little visible.
The Border Patrol Tactical Unit, oregon BORTAC, is comprised of highly trained agents with accelerated effect capabilities.
NewsNation received exclusive entree to BORTAC’s grooming facilities successful El Paso, Texas, wherever these men and women perpetually bid to apprehend the astir unsafe individuals, including cartel operatives, who transverse illegally into the United States.
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“We bid 365 days a year,” Bryan Gru, peculiar operations supervisor, said during a simulated hostage rescue. “These guys are each invested, they are hand-selected to beryllium present with the nationalist team.”
Agents who tally done specified exercises are striving for “zero fail” results, explained Chris Voss, the acting commandant for the Border Patrol’s Special Operations Group (SOG). At the aforesaid time, agents indispensable set to changing circumstances, helium adds.
“The guys are truly bully astatine it. So, it’s thing we instrumentality precise seriously, and we bid constantly,” Voss said.
The grooming and enactment process for BORTAC agents is modeled connected those utilized for subject peculiar forces, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Candidates indispensable bid successful precocious weapons techniques and “must show the quality to relation successful a squad situation nether accent and slumber deprivation conditions.”
