Garrison

I had intended to go to law school to be a civil rights attorney when I joined the Border Patrol.

And for me...

I ignored my core values and ignored that I was enforcing laws that sent thousands of human beings to their deaths because I felt like I was trying to survive.

I was raped in the academy by a fellow agent and they covered that up.

And I was really trying to get out of the South and start my life.

I often say, like, especially with female agents, they call us the first 5% because there's never been more than 5% women in the Border Patrol ranks.

And they say, oh, it's because it's very hard.

It's not because it's very hard.

I mean, it is very hard to get through.

But it's also it's because they're sexually assaulting us all the time in the academy and harassing us.

So I go back and forth in my mind and I would imagine this young woman, you know, she has days where she arrests some pretty decent criminals every now and then once in a blue moon, but the majority of them

If she's paying attention and not completely self-absorbed, she'll realize that they're not criminals and their family is just simply seeking asylum.

So she at some point has to decide in her mind, is this what I got into?

Is this what I want to do with my life?

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