There are ‘gaping holes’ at our southern border, areas so bad that even border agents won’t patrol.
Yeah, that makes me feel safe.
In related news, AP reports that the job of patrolling the border has become so boring that at least 15 agents have taken their lives since February 2008.
But stepped-up border security — including 600 miles of fence and an even larger “virtual” fence that is monitored online — has reduced the number of illegal crossings, as has the economic hardship of the recession.
The result is a job that went from thrilling to downright boring. Agents often spent 12-hour shifts sitting alone in Jeeps and pickups keeping watch for illegal immigrants.
“Now an agent may start his shift and sit in one position for eight hours and monitor traffic and do their work,” said psychologist Kenneth Middleton, clinical director of the Border Patrol’s peer-support program. “Now they’ve got a whole lot of time to think about other things going on in their life.”
Others say that ‘there is always work to be done’.
Trust Associated Press to take literary license with a bullet hole.
DeLaCruz’s suicide put her boyfriend over the edge. A month later, he stumbled home drunk, grabbed the gun from his holster and blew a hole as large as a coffee mug through his head.
Wankers.
17. August 2010 at 12:04 pm
They are really killing themselves from boredom, that is pure bullshit.
17. August 2010 at 12:09 pm
That’s what I thought…
17. August 2010 at 8:01 pm
When I was a boy the Border Patrol was full of old gunfighters like Bill Jordan and Charlie Askins. These days the “Justice Department” locks BP Agents up. There are big areas where BP Agents simply cannot patrol effectively as there are squads and platoons of (ex?)Mexican Army units complete with machine guns, grenade launchers and anti-tank rockets.
We don’t have a fence, the agency is outgunned and outnumbered.and their own government is on the other side. I wonder why morale is low?
17. August 2010 at 8:06 pm
Oh, and a contact wound can make an exit hole the size of a coffee cup. You don’t seem to realize what powder gas, an expanding bullet and moving brain tissue can do.
17. August 2010 at 8:19 pm
Well, yeah I do. One of my closest friends was a Sheriff’s deputy for 10 years and every night I got a blow by blow of everything that had happened that day… from decapitated heads rolling down I45 to bullet wounds. And let’s not forget SWAT storming crack houses.
Have mercy. I could never be a LEO, EMT or such.
But… I should have written that they were taking license… I just thought the description unnecessary.