A Border Patrol agent is positioned by the border fence. Photo by Chris Stone This past January, I was surprised to finally see the U.S Border Patrol begin to address a long-standing, rarely acknowledged crisis: employee suicides. One hundred and fifty CBP agents and employees have died by suicide since 2015, with 14 in 2022 alone. To combat this problem, the agency hired its first “suicidologist,” who launched an awareness campaign. And it introduced a new Support Canine Program, which gives agents access to therapy dogs. But neither of these efforts address the underlying problem of why agents are taking their own lives. As a survivor of a suicide attempt and former Border P
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