A suicide expert hired by U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently reported that the agency’s high number of suicides most likely is triggered by family or relationship issues rather than work problems.
“They do talk about the border conditions decreasing their morale, but in no way is that the cause of suicide,” Dr. Kent Corso, who joined CBP in 2021 as the program manager for suicide prevention, told the Washington Examiner. “If it were, I think we’d see many more triggers being work-related instead of triggers being family-related or relationship-related.”
Corso noted that three Border Patrol agents recently committed suicide within 15 days of one another and the agency determined that relationship problems were the main trigger in each case.
“What I can share without violating privacy is that of the most recent suicides, they were related to relationship problems,” he said.
Join the conversation as a VIP Member