A recently published report determined that in recent years the suicide rate of Customs and Border Protection agents of the United States (CBP) suffered a drastic increase of almost triple the number of casesinvolving officers who push themselves to the limit by frequently making horrific discoveries.
There is no respite for CBP agents, who daily register a notable increase in the influx of illegal immigrants and, in the midst of the fruitless fight they carry out to mitigate the problem, They encounter macabre situations and scenarios that push them to the limit. of its capacity.
In dialogue with Free Press, a series of agents explained how their daily work harasses them in such a way that many of them make a drastic decision. “We regularly see things that people should never seesuch as decomposing human remains, abuse of all kinds, babies and children dying or dead,” explained an officer, whose identity remains anonymous.
Many migrants seeking to cross into the United States were separated from their children for up to several weeks.
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The agents’ words complement the daily horror reflected in the official statistics, which indicate a threefold increase in suicides by CBP agents in recent years during the administration of President Joe Biden. The suicide rate is almost double that of officers in other security forces.
According to official statistics cited by the media The New York Posthe daily average of border crossings in December reached 10,000 peoplea record number in the history of the country that led agents to work “almost asleep,” according to the statements of a former agent of the force.
The shocking stories of CBP agents
One of the officers interviewed by the aforementioned media recounted a difficult episode that he had to witness in one of the immigration interviews. “I had to sit there and listening to a 13-year-old girl from El Salvador tell me how her smuggler had raped her twice. She was traveling with her 9-year-old brother and the smuggler said she would hurt the child if she did not cooperate. “So she let him do whatever she wanted,” he noted in dismay.
Along these lines, another of the agents, under the pseudonym Mark, told of a situation that he had to experience repeatedly. “How would you feel when you have a man in front of you, asking for asylum, holding his little daughter’s hand, smiling at you and lying to your face, using the same phrase that you have been taught to enter the country? Despite His criminal record shows that he was arrested for sexual abuse of minors. If you separate the girl, she will scream and be traumatized. If you keep them together, you run a very high risk of her experiencing sexual trauma again. “Tell me, what trauma is the lesser evil?” she inquired.
Although There are no investigations by the force into the dramatic situation that the agents experience every dayan official CBP spokesperson said in a statement that “maintaining the morale that supports frontline personnel and ensuring the workforce has the resources available to maintain a healthy work-life balance is a top priority for the CBP leadership.”
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