Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Corruption Spreads Through Border Patrol as It Grows
From the Office of Unintended, but Not Unforeseen Consequences: the smuggling market in illegal immigration grows with the expansion of Homeland Security and the multiplication of border guards. Trying to stem the tide kicks the flood gates open wider. Then you have to find more tax money to investigate, prosecute, and incarcerate the people hired to guard the borders. It's one more federal hole to throw money down, and the people getting rich are the higher demand smugglers.
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Just to clarify, most of these criminals are Customs and Border Protection Officers not Border Patrol Agents. We all get painted with the same brush but the vast majority of these corruption cases occur at the Ports of Entry. Border Patrol Agents, who work between the ports, have far less corruption.
ReplyDeleteShawn Moran
US Border Patrol