127 border workers nabbed for corruption since 2004
(NEWSER) - Dangling offers of money and sexual favors, Mexican drug cartels have bribed US border officials to allow illegal immigrants through checkpoints, shield traffickers, or provide secret information, a top official testified before a Senate subcommittee. The Zetas drug cartel in particular has been “involved increasingly in systematic corruption,” said the acting inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, following an investigation. Some 127 Customs and Border Protection workers have been nabbed for corruption since 2004, said that agency’s boss. More»
