Agent Officer

ARMANDO ALCARAZ

******@*****.***

610-***-**** **4 Bryn Mawr Avenue Newtown Square, PA

Spanish Translator

I completed nearly Twenty Nine years of Federal Law Enforcement with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice.

I retired as a Customs and Border Protection Officer assigned at the Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 31, 2016. I worked at the Newark Liberty International, Newark, New Jersey, George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas, the Vancouver Canada Pre Clearance Operations, the Oranjestad, Aruba Pre Clearance, and the United States Border Patrol, Del Rio, Texas.

Duties include:

Interviewing and compiling reports and findings on applicants seeking entry or admission into the United States

Enforce the Immigration and Nationality Laws of the United States by preventing the unauthorized entry into our country

Screen passengers in order to deter, detect, and apprehend violators of Immigration and Customs Laws

Seizure of Narcotics and apprehension and arrest of traffickers

Anti Terrorism interview techniques

Determine a subject eligibility and admissibility for entry into the United States

Utilizing automated Government data systems

Daily interpretation and application NAFTA laws and regulations

Expert NAFTA Handbook knowledge

Apprehend human, narcotics and commercial goods from entering the United States illegally

Rescue individuals who would otherwise fall into dangerous situations by attempting to cross our borders illegally

Numerous collateral duties, as well as assisting fellow officers, supervisors and members of the general public on a day-to-day basis

Worked on a daily basis with the Visa Branch Unit of the American Embassy, Caracas, Venezuela and with the US Special Interest Office from the American Consulate in Curacao, West Dutch Indies

Designated as liaison officer for both the US Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela as well as the US Consulate in Curacao

Fraud documents officer in charge of establishing a functional, user-friendly laboratory where fraudulent documents could be detected

Senior Border Patrol Agent

Acting Supervisor, Del Rio Sector Screening and Prosecutions Unit

Senior Patrol Agent assigned to the Prosecution Unit

Presented essential facts before the U.S. Grand Jury, U.S. Magistrate and the US attorneys

Presented information to the Grand Jury for indictments

Lead Spanish Instructor, 337th Session, Charleston South Carolina Academy

Served one tour of duty at the Border Patrol Academy, Charleston as a Certified Spanish Instructor

Acting Supervisor, Del Rio Sector Post Academy Training Unit

Post Academy Coordinator and Lead Law Instructor

Responsible for the probationary Agents 6 and 10-month exams

Insured proficiency in all aspects of Immigration, Nationality, Criminal, and Statutory Law

Assigned to the Anti-Smuggling Units, Texas Department of Public Safety’s, ride along program

Conducted various duties which included: line watch, traffic check operations, brush crew, responding to RMSS, freight train, container train, common carrier inspection and alien processing

Assigned as the Agent In Charge of the War On Drugs Unit

Entered on Duty, July 27, 1987, United States Border Patrol’s 209th Session

Assigned to the Del Rio Sector, Del Rio Station

I am fluent in English, Spanish, and can read, write and communicate in Italian. Understand some French.

I continually strive to use all of my experience and expertise that I have honed and developed with the Federal Government as a Border Patrol Agent, Immigration Inspector and as a Customs and Border Protection Officer, both domestic and abroad.

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