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Video-Based Training Helps Create Expert Border Patrol Trackers Fact Sheet and Video

U.S. Border Patrol Agents (BPAs) identify and track movement of personnel within a given area. This highly specialized tracking skill is known as sign cutting. Tracking people that do not want to be found is a nearly impossible task without proper training, and is extremely difficult even with training.