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National Border Patrol Council cites concerns with bases for agents

Sites near Mexico labeled ‘enormous waste’ of cash

The NBPC report said the bases also lacked insect and rodent control and did not have adequate first aid facilities for the emergency treatment of injured persons.

“Multiple agents have experienced various illnesses, to include respiratory infections while assigned to the unsanitary, substandard living conditions provided at the FOBs,” the NBPC said. “This is an insult to the men and women who are assigned to these FOBs.”

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