Our U.S. Border Patrol agents are being killed and assaulted at an alarming rate.

There has been a surge in assaults on U.S. Border Patrol agents charged with capturing illegals trying to cross into the United States, according the agency’s chief.

Border Patrol Chief Mark A. Morgan told a Senate committee Wednesday that two agents have been killed in the last four months alone.

“The men and women of the Border Patrol have one of the toughest jobs in federal law enforcement,” said Morgan, adding, “They are the most assaulted federal law enforcement in the us, more than 7,400 border patrol agents have been assaulted since 2006.”

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