Border Patrol Agent Dies in the Desert
Underscoring the dangers of an often vilified job
By Andrew R. Arthur on October 11, 2019
I have written previously about how dangerous illegal crossings of the Southwest border are for the migrants who voluntarily undertake that journey. News out of Arizona on October 7, 2019, of the death of a Border Patrol agent in the line of duty underscores the dangers for those who are charged with enforcing the law, as well.
A 44-year-old agent, Robert Hotten, was found unconscious by fellow agents on Sunday afternoon. The 10-year veteran of the Border Patrol had been responding to an activated ground sensor on Mount Washington, east of Nogales, Ariz., on October 6. Roy Villareal, the chief of the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector stated: "When Agent Hotten was found unresponsive, it appears that he had fallen and may have hit his head on some rocks, but again at this stage we don't know that was the cause of death."
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