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The interview highlights the tragic toll on law enforcement personnel. Tara details how border patrol agents are overwhelmed, with a quarter of the workforce lost in recent years, compounded by a spike in suicides and low morale. Efforts to recruit new agents are hampered by inadequate incentives, despite increased signing bonuses.
Border agencies are burdened with processing unprecedented numbers of migrants—sometimes hundreds of thousands in a month—often under harrowing conditions. Staff shortages, resource limitations, and the deployment of other federal agencies like Marshals, Secret Service, and Air Marshals to assist in border operations reveal the scale of the crisis.