Well the Trump administration hired a recruiting firm to address this so far they have referred 2 people who passed the selection process and charges 13.6 Million for this.The Trump administration paid a private company $13.6 million to recruit thousands of Border Patrol agents, and they've hired 2 so farCurrently the BPu2019s biggest issue to attract qualified recruits is that it has been turned into a political symbol by the current administration and that the officers no longer have discretion in their duties and must follow administrative directives that conflict with the Humanitarian part of the BPs mission.BP is looking for educated fit intelligent people to be agents, they prefer a college degree and you have to pass several tests and interviews that look for not only the temperament needed by also logic and critical thinking skills.Now to some the obvious u201csolutionu201d is to lower the Standards, well they did that in the 80s and the results were disastrous and a stain on the agency, they ae not willing to do that again