Border Patrol visits Sacramento to pitch good-paying jobs

By Susan Ferriss - sferriss@sacbee.com Published 12:00 am PDT Friday, August 8, 2008 Story appeared in OUR REGION section, Page B1 ELIZABETH VARIN The Sacramento Bee Border Patrol Agent Amanda Karhoff goes over the agency's written physical requirements with Rahmatullah Mashriqi, center, and John Ahmad on Thursday. ELIZABETH VARIN / The Sacramento Bee Attracted by promises of excitement, service to country – and pay as high as $80,000 in three years – scores of people showed up to hear a pitch from U.S. Border Patrol recruiters in Sacramento on Thursday. "We are currently waging a war on terror. And now, more than ever, this border must be guarded," a narrator said in a video shown during a six-hour job fair at a DoubleTree Hotel. Some of the more than 150 people who dropped by were fresh out of high school, the military or a... [read full story]