A significant increase in violent attacks on Border Patrol agents has occurred in West Texas in recent years, the head of the Border Patrol’s El Paso sector says.
Since Oct. 1, the start of fiscal year 2024, a total of 66 agents stationed in the El Paso sector have been assaulted, according to a press release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
In fiscal 2023, which ended Sept. 30, 104 agents were assaulted, up from 56 such assaults in fiscal 2022 and 54 in fiscal 2021.
“We will not tolerate any harm to the well-being of those dedicated to protecting others,” Chief Patrol Agent Anthony Good of the El Paso Sector said in a public statement. “Our law enforcement partners stand with us in bringing those responsible to justice.”
El Paso, one of the Border Patrol’s nine sectors along the U.S.-Mexico border, includes a portion of West Texas and all of…
