The story rang familiar to Mark Monsivais, whose daughter, Julia, committed suicide in July 2009. He said people hurled chunks of concrete at the 24-year-old agent during her three years in Yuma, Ariz.
Other times, he said, his daughter complained of lagging backup patrolling a dangerous and barren stretch known as “Devil’s Corridor.” She worried about running into drug traffickers but more often stumbled on dehydrated migrants collapsed in the sand, their legs twitching.
“It’s transparent to us, the people that are here, that the job is a definite factor. They’re under an enormous amount of stress,” Monsivais said.
“If they do something wrong,” he added, “it’s an international incident.”
The job was so dangerous the family has doubts about whether it was suicide. Relatives wonder whether Julia could have been killed by shady characters she met on patrol.
Seems that someone should just change jobs if it’s going to make you suicidal.