The Border Patrol has been quickly growing its ranks of chaplains to help with mounting distress.
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Border Patrol Agent Trinidad Balderas looks at his new chaplain pin after graduating from the program, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, in Dania Beach, Fla. Border Patrol processing coordinator Yaira Santiago listens to Federal Wildlife officer Cody Smith during a scenario training session, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in Dania Beach, Fla.
Border Patrol specialist Mitchell Holmes, left, listens to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Regional Law Enforcement agent Kevin Shinn, during a Chaplain Academy training session, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in Dania Beach, Fla. Earlier this month, he served as a training academy instructor for Border Patrol chaplains, whose numbers have almost doubled in the last four years. It's an effort to help agents motivated by the desire to keep the U.S. borders safe cope with mounting distress before it leads to family dysfunction, addiction, even suicide.
While most chaplains are Christian, Muslim and Jewish agents also have been trained recently. The chaplains don’t offer faith-specific worship and only bring up religion if the person they’re helping does first. Chris Day, a chaplain since 2017, evaluated trainees trying to comfort an agent who kept screaming that it was all his fault his partner was killed. In the training scenario, their car crashed as they chased someone crossing the border illegally.
“One tries to give them support within the limits of what your work allows. I always have the biggest smile,” Santiago said.
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