Shock: 200% increase in assaults on Border Patrol agents

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There has been a surge in assaults on U.S. Border Patrol agents charged with capturing illegals trying to cross into the United States, according the agency’s chief.

Border Patrol Chief Mark A. Morgan told a Senate committee Wednesday that two agents have been killed in the last four months alone.

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