Collateral Damage from Whack-a-mole and Immigration Crackdown: Border Patrol sees spike in suicides

Another price being paid for the U.S. mania to "secure the border."

Border Patrol sees spike in suicides: "(an increasing frequency of) Suicides ... have set off alarm bells throughout the Border Patrol,.... After nearly four years without a single suicide in their ranks, border agents are killing themselves in greater numbers. Records obtained by The Associated Press show that at least 15 agents have taken their own lives since February 2008 — the largest spike in suicides the agency has seen in at least 20 years. It's unclear exactly why the men ended their lives. Few of them left notes. And the Border Patrol seems somewhat at odds with itself over the issue." August 16, 2010, AP