Border Patrol Agent Raises Almost $30,000 Online To Help Family of Fallen Agent

Nicholas Ivie, a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, was killed earlier this month while on duty, leaving behind a wife and two daughters. Billy Sanders, Ivie's classmate at the Border Patrol Academy and colleague at the Naco Border Patrol Station, has since turned to online crowdfunding to help Ivie's family, raising almost $30,000 in less than a month.

Sanders created a campaign on the website gofundme.com to help his friend's family recover. Even though Sanders and Ivie were not close friends, Sanders started the campaign because the fallen agent was "an extremely compassionate individual, he was a good person," Sanders told Mashable.

"And I'm not saying that because he died or because h…
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