Why Some U.S. Border Agents Are Contemplating Suicide
Former Customs and Border Protection Chief Patrol agent Chris Clem near the U.S.-Mexico border in Yuma, Arizona, on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. On the left is wall constructed under the Biden administration and on the right is wall constructed under the Trump administration (Caitlin O'Hara for The Free Press)
‘We see things people should never see, like rotting human remains, abuse of every kind. Do you know what that does to you over time?’
Brian, a U.S. Border Patrol agent who works along the south Texas border, is haunted by something that happened a few years ago. A man—a Mexican cartel member, he believes—emerged from the banks of the Rio Grande carrying two toddlers. The children, a boy and a girl, were wearing nothing but diapers. The man darted across the border, dropped the childre…
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