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'People actively hate us': Inside the US border patrol's morale crisis

New York Times
By Manny Fernandez, Caitlin Dickerson, Miriam Jordan, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Kendrick Brinson

Overwhelmed by desperate migrants and criticised for mistreating the people in their care, many agents have grown defensive, insular and bitter.

One Border Patrol agent in Tucson, Arizona, said he had been called a "sellout"