Number Of Border Patrol Agents Committing Suicide In 2024 Are At Concerning Levels

The number of suicides among border patrol agents has nearly reached the number set in 2023, with four months still to go.

A total of seven U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees committed suicide in 2024, with still four months left in the year.

In 2023, eight died by suicide.

Kent Corso, CBP’s former “suicidolgist,” stated, “First responders are exposed to many, many more potentially traumatic events than the general population, which, frankly, puts them at higher risk for suicide anyway,  just all law enforcement.”

The number of suicides committed by Border Patrol agents in 2024 has neared the number set in 2023, with four months to go, the New York Post reported on Friday. https://t.co/5kDzzJKaJN

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Per Newsmax:

The number of suicides committed by Border Patrol agents in 2024 has neared the number set in 2023, with four months to go, the New York Post reported on Friday.

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At least seven U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees ended their own lives in 2024; eight died last year by their own hand.

Kent Corso, CBP’s former “suicidolgist” and behavior analyst, told the outlet that agents on the front line are witnesses to more of life’s grim realities than the average citizen.

“Law enforcement officers see a ton of death. They experience loss,” the psychologist said.

“First responders are exposed to many, many more potentially traumatic events than the general population, which, frankly, puts them at higher risk for suicide anyway — just all law enforcement,” he said.

ABC News reported that there were eight suicides by CBP agents in 2020 and 11 in 2021.

At least seven CBP employees have committed suicide this year, just one less than the eight who took their own life last year — with more than four months still remaining in 2024, CBP’s former “suicidologist,” Dr. Kent Corso, told The Post.There were also eight suicides in 2020 pic.twitter.com/Xn5bnuGeES

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Per The New York Post:

The number of US Customs and Border Protection workers who have committed suicide so far this year has almost eclipsed the total number who took their own life in 2023 — as exhausted agents say the crisis at the besieged southern border is taking its toll.

At least seven CBP employees have committed suicide this year, just one less than the eight who took their own life last year — with more than four months still remaining in 2024, CBP’s former “suicidologist,” Dr. Kent Corso, told The Post.

There were also eight suicides in 2020 and 11 in 2021, ABC News previously reported. CBP suffered its worst year in 2022, when 15 employees took their own life, Corso, who left the agency in May, said.

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There are 60,000 CBP employees, including around 19,000 Border Patrol agents.