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Blood money on the border.(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief Article)
Mexican drug cartels, which are supported and protected by that nation's extravagantly corrupt government, have lavished bribes on Customs and Border Patrol agents to transform "the Texas-Mexico border into one of the major transport corridors for marijuana, cocaine, and heroin," reported columnist James Pinkerton in the May 29 Houston Chronicle.
Border Patrol agent Juan Alfredo Alvarez, for example, was paid $1.5 million "to wave trucks loaded with a ton or more of marijuana through checkpoints outside Hebbronville, according to a plea bargain Alvarez agreed to earlier this month." Gerardo Diaz, a Customs and Border Protection inspector, had pleaded guilty to accepting a $15,000 bribe to allow five kilos of cocaine to pass through the Ysleta port of entry. In one pending case, a ...
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- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 25, 2009 700+ words
...S. Customs and Border Protection issued the following...Last night, Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar...one of our young Border Patrol Agents, Robert Rosas...amp; Marine and Border Patrol agents face as they...
- U.S. Border Patrol agents to speed up illegal immigrants' deportation.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News August 12, 2004 700+ words
...Texas -- Local U.S. Border Patrol agents soon will speed up...spokeswoman for U.S. Border Patrol and Border Protection. The new practice will begin...training, Chavez said. "Border Patrol does the majority of apprehensions...
