Suicide among Border Patrol agents has spiked this year, just as it has among police officers and the blame is being directed at the liberal/progressive anti-law enforcement political atmosphere in the Biden administration.
Border Patrol Council leaders say the agents’ frustrations and depression have increased amid a historic surge in illegal immigration under the Biden administration. So far in 2022, 11 agents have taken their lives, including in the last two weeks ending on Nov. 26.
National Border Patrol Council Vice President At-Large Sergio Moreno, says agents are distraught because they are not allowed to do their duties, yet they are punished for the slightest infraction. "Since the Biden administration came into office, we lost our purpose," an anonymous Border Patrol agent added, highlighting a growing sense of low morale among rank-and-file CBP personnel.”
Like police officers in San Antonio and other liberal-run cities, Border Patrol agents are working long hours because their ranks are stretched thin because there are fewer applicants, more early retirements, and more agents who quit. The agents, like police officers, are attacked by the news media, while illegal border crossers are released with little or no accountability by the Biden Administration.
Furthermore, the Homeland Security leadership, including Secretary Alejandro Myorkas, has shown a willingness to punish agents under any pretext they can rather than support their mission of protecting the border. For example, when photos showed agents did not whip Haitian illegal aliens as accused, Myorkas and the Biden Administration still want to find guilt and punish the agents involved. The one of results of this hostile work environment is the suicide rate.
Just as the local police are targeted by the radical Democrat progressives, so are the Border Patrol agents because they stand in the way of their lawless, open-border goals. Citizens must stand up for and with the Border Patrol, as well as the local police because their national and personal public safety depends on it.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/30/three-border-patrol-agents-die-by-suicide-in-three-weeks/