All training, including suicide prevention, canceled for Border Patrol agents amid immigrant surge

By Anna Giaritelli

Published September 29, 2023 8:00am ET

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All training, including suicide prevention, canceled for Border Patrol agents amid immigrant surge — A U.S. Border Patrol agent helps a small migrant child that crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico to the U.S. with a group, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas.

EXCLUSIVE — Thousands of immigrants who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border near El Paso this past week have forced the Border Patrol to halt all mental health, physical health, and firearm training to ensure all employee time is spent transporting and processing people, the Washington Examiner has learned.

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