This is the Kader Daily Podcast for Thursday, November 2nd, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Before the feds spend more of your money on border security it's worth looking at how well

customs and Border Patrol overseers have done with what they have now.

Alex Narasta is author of a new report Border Patrol termination rates that digs down into how the agency handles its problem agents.

What is the measure of corruption that you're using to get at the rate here.

So what I'm measuring is the termination rate,

which is, or the separation rate,

which is the rate or the percentage of officers each year

who are fired for discipline and performance problems from Border Patrol, CBP, and these other agencies.

So this is not a direct measure of corruption or misconduct.

Corruption is the criminal misuse or abuse of an employee's position.

Misconduct is delinquent behavior that can be,

but does not have to be related to the execution of official duties.

The thing that I'm measuring this performance and discipline firings

include corruption and misconduct, but is not limited to that. The problem is the federal government does not make

corruption and misconduct data readily available for any agency and it's

especially murky and poorly reported for Border Patrol.

So this is a way to try to get at that, to understand it, to understand personnel problems,

but it's not a direct measure of corruption.

What do we know about how Customs and Border Patrol does its job?

Well, we don't have all the information that we'd like,

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