Smugglers pay big money for insider help
(NEWSER) - Mexico has a vast, well-known corruption problem, but drug cartels are increasingly finding helping hands across the border in the form of US border agents, finds the Washington Post . In one typical case, an American mother of two, Martha Garnica, worked with smugglers to sneak people and drugs across the border, grooming other agents to do the same. Garnica was busted and sentenced to 20 years. But, says the Post, the cartels pay well and the problem persists. More»