News Border Patrol struggling to hire, keep agents, but may never get 5,000 Trump ordered March 29, 2019Alan Gomez, USA TODAYComments Off on Border Patrol struggling to hire, keep agents, but may never get 5,000 Trump ordered President Trump signed an order to hire an additional 5,000 Border Patrol agents, but two years later, the agency has only hired 118. Here's why.