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‘I can’t handle this:’ Doctors treating migrants on the border are walking out

By Anna Giaritelli
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‘I can’t handle this:’ Doctors treating migrants on the border are walking out

EL PASO, Texas — Two contracted doctors who had been serving inside overcrowded Border Patrol facilities in the El Paso, Texas, region have walked off the job in separate incidents since late May, two Border Patrol union officials have confirmed to the Washington Examiner.

“The situation became so overwhelming, they just quit,” said Wesley Farris, second vice president of the National Border Patrol Council’s El Paso chapter.

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