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Haunted by migrant deaths, Border Patrol agents face mental health toll

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Migrant deaths have surged for a second year along this stretch of U.S.-Mexico border in West Texas and southern New Mexico .

175 migrants have died in Border Patrol's El Paso Sector this fiscal year , breaking last year's record of 149 deaths.

Border Patrol agents are receiving additional training and other resources to help agents and care for them at work.

Border Patrol has made mental health and "resiliency" a priority.

CBP launched a K-9 program specifically designed to support agent mental health.

Agency has also hired six operational psychologists who office inside Border Patrol stations.

"We don't need to be that tough guy or gal," Chief Patrol Agent Scott Good says.

Border Patrol agent says he had a nightmare that night after the elderly man died in the desert.

"I've seen a lot. People, aliens, decapitated decapitated because they’ve done an FTY , a failure to yield, doesn’t get me," he says.

Gil : "There was nothing I could do because it’s too late.".

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