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Border Patrol to hold recruiting event at St. Pete Hilton, despite activist pressure

The event is part of a nationwide effort to add agents for CPB, a group with a reputation for aggressive and violent immigration enforcement tactics.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection will host a recruitment event this week at St. Petersburg’s Carillon Park Hilton Hotel. Liberal groups like Activists with Voices are calling on the Hilton to cancel the event, saying in one Facebook post that it encourages “kidnapping” of neighbors by federal enforcement agents. The same post says that protests […]

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