Investigation: Mexican Cartels Using Money, Sex to Bribe U.S. Border Agents
- Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:14am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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As violence increases along our nation’s southern border, a stunning investigation just released by the Dept. of Homeland Security finds that Mexican drug cartels are successfully bribing U.S. border agents with money and sex.
The investigation was conducted by Charles Edwards, acting inspector general at the DHS. He discussed it during a hearing at the Senate Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs. CNN reports:
In exchange, agents allow contraband or unauthorized immigrants through inspection lanes, protect or escort traffickers or leak sensitive information, said Charles Edwards, acting inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security.
Testifying before a Senate subcommittee, Edwards cited the Zetas drug cartel as one of the leaders “involved increasingly in systematic corruption.”
He did not elaborate on how non-cash methods of corruption, like sexual favors, have been used to corrupt agents.
At the same hearing, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin said that since October 2004, 127 Customs and Border Protection employees have been arrested or indicted for acts of corruption.
“The accelerated hiring pace under which we operated between 2006 and 2008 — and, frankly, mistakes from which we are learning — exposed critical organizational and individual vulnerabilities within CBP,” he said.
Still, he referenced a new piece of legislation he think will help combat that. The Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010, he said, will require that by 2013 all the agency’s law enforcement applicants must receive a polygraph test before being hired. In addition, it calls for periodic reinvestigations of agents.
“However,” he added, “our investigations are complicated by the brutality the cartels use to control their organizations and coerce witnesses, and the sophistication and advanced technologies available to organizations with unlimited money.”
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Comments (95)
JoeNY
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 1:09pm“No sir, we don’t have anything of interst to you. Say, did you see that large group of pretty girls over there. I heard that they like Border Patrol Agents in uniform….. even better out of uniform. Why don‘t you go take a look and we’ll finish interviewing ourselves. Thanks.”
Seen any good walls lately?
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 1:08pmWith all else going to hell we’re now becoming Mexico.
Report Post »Barb1954
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:55pm@SnowLeapard: “These investigations need to go up the entire chain of command; all the way through the justice department, and the Homeland Security, along with seeing how many of the DC band are cooking the books with these Cartels.”
This hearing was ABOUT an ongoing investigation, lol. I’m a GEEK and I watched the hearing on CSPAN & I was SHOCKED at some things the author of this article DID NOT mention. OVER 70% of CBP officers being reviewed in one way or another are PROBABLY CORRUPT! What the HELL does that say about the SECURITY of our Southern Borders??????? Not only that…..there is FRICTION between DHS IG and the CBP regarding…..wait for it……BACKGROUND CHECKS and POLYGRAPH TESTS! The IG found they WERE basically NOT BEING DONE! It’s NO WONDER there is so much CORRUPTION down on our Southern Border! And on top of all that you have the whole PROSECUTING the BAD GUYS thing making it ALL THE WAY to DOJ….yeah, uh huh!
Senator Rand Paul’s concerns had to do with LEGAL Immigration and Student VISAS…you know….the whole WHO’s CHECKING UP ON THESE PEOPLE question? And what about the 1800 IRAQI Refugees that have ended up in the US?…..WHO did the Background Checks and Polygraphs on THEM? I don’t think he asked about ALL the Refugees FROM PALESTINE authorized by an Obama EO 2 yrs ago! Basically Sen Paul was told that we don’t have the PEOPLE to monitor all these incoming people……THEN TEMPORARILY STOP LETTING THEM FREAKIN IN…at least until you GE
Report Post »ohiovalleywizard
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:51pma real fence or wall if you will, with limited access points would be more cost effective and do something those in power would not understand…….. it would actually work.
Report Post »RugerHoyt
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:14pmhow much do you think they would pay someone to camp out down there and realy “enforce” the border? This problem is no different than the wild hogs spreading across the nation, and my Ruger works real good on hogs…hmmmm I wonder….?
Report Post »ARIZONA VETERAN
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:14pmPOLYGRAPH EVERY 30 DAYS = PROBLEM SOLVED ya
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:25pmThat program will only cost the tax payers a MINIMUM of 100 Million Dollars, but hey we have all kinds of money right,
Report Post »compatriotshonor
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:13pmThese problems have been going on now since long before the reagan administration and this is new to you all? Shame on the feds long ago for not doing thier job!
Report Post »As to the boarder patrol, yes indeed, traitors they are, but hey look on the bright side, at least the obama camp embraces this continued effort for letting more illeagles into this country and not doing thier job. Way to go obama for your continued efforts, saying the ‘change we can believe in’ is still the same pathetic policys from the past. I bet your liberation theology is well worth the effort in the continued fight in bringing our country to our knees, allowing these animals to over run our boarders with thier violence, drugs and gangs.
What a pathetic way to have more votes for the marxists in this government! MORON!!!!
ChiefGeorge
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:58amJust a couple of words. What about our culture, language and traditions?
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:12pmcannabis was grown by by many of the Founding Father include George Washington. Grated it was less potent that today strands, but cannabis is by far the most useful plant on the face of the planet, not just used for drugs.
Report Post »bruce_baker
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:47amDid human nature change?! Did I miss that?
When there is billions of dollars to be made dealing any illegal item, the cartels have an almost unlimited budget. Why are we suprised when they use it to corrupt those set to watch them? That story is as old as time. You’re surprised that agents could be tempted to take money and favors to look the other way? Grow up and start living in the real world.
Alchohol Prohibition was repealed for several very good reasons. Corruption of law enforcement was only one of them. Too bad we didn’t learn the lesson then.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:57amNow Now, we cant have the unwashed masses have freedom and liberty, that is just WRONG
Report Post »publicuss
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:43amWell duh?! Those Mexican chicks are hot!! Tanned, tight, toned oiled bodies… Course they hire mexicans for the border patrol to start with.
Wanna see something scary?!?!
Botched Paramilitary Police Raids
An Epidemic of “Isolated Incidents”
“If a widespread pattern of [knock-and-announce] violations were shown . . . there would be reason for grave concern.” -Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in Hudson v. Michigan, June 15, 2006.
An interactive map of botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids, released in conjunction with the Cato policy paper “Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids,” by Radley Balko.
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/
Check it out!!
Report Post »llotus
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:38amIf legalizing marijuana would stop the drug crime, I would be all for it. But, you cant have meth, cocain, opium etc. legalized. That would be like legalizing beer but not hard liquor. These people want the hard stuff and will get it. After listening to the ElPrez., he would most likely shoot Americans over running hic country and trying to destroy it, before their toes got wet. Lotus.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:48amActually just legalizing pot would shut down a good part of the cartels business, Marijuana still makes up over 60% of the Mexican Drug Trade,
But it would not end the war on drugs, nor would it restore the civil liberties stolen by the war on drugs.
Prohibition NEVER EVER works never in the history of man kind has prohibition worked. Education and sever punishment of real crime related to the ABUSE not USE of drugs is the only way to cut down on the problems. Some people can/do/and have used cocaine and other “hard drugs” while still enjoying successful careers and happy lives, it is there choice to do so, people that fall in to an ABUSE cycle and steal or commit other crimes against another person’s property or person should be harshly punish, but we should not punish people because they choose an intoxicant that we disagree with by all the while hypocritically enjoying a different intoxicant that is “acceptable” that is the antithesis of freedom,
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:21amDrug Cartels operate with one goal in mind, getting their “goods” to market. They innovate as needed, kill and threaten as required to reach a successful delivery. As long as demand is strong in the USA, becoming more and more of a decadent secular society each and every minute, this will never stop. Get used to it………unless we DECRIMINALIZE!
Report Post »GadsdenPatriot
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:16pmI’ve never said this to anyone here yet but you are an idiot. Decriminalization is done in Socialistic countries as an aid to dumb the people down and we have never modeled our Nation from Socialism/Communism. Secondly if you’ve learned ANYTHING these cartels HATE competition! Legalizing pot will create even more competition and they WILL act out violently to stay ahead of the US government competition. As an unintended side effect you can be sure of even more corruption in our politicians and LE for fear of their lives and lives of their families. Get with it! Securing the borders is the ONLY reasonable answer along with a crack down on corruption as we’ve never seen before. Those with defeatist attitudes such as yours are contributing to the problem NOT the answer.
Report Post »ED4237
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:06amThis is no surprise people after all are corruptable. If drugs were legal it would be a non violent bussiness and then the border patrol could concentrate on just keeping people out. If drugs were legal then there is no money for the drug cartels to fund themseleves or their corrupt officals on both sides of the border. Bring our troops hom,e from around the world and build bases on the border that would secure the border.
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:56amYour Kidding??? Since most of our border agents happen to be hispanic with dual loyalties are you surprised!!!!
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:53amPerhaps an electrical fence would act as a substantial deterrent against those persistant illegal aliens…
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:49amDrone flights….
Report Post »Desert Dog
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:50amLiving near the border, this isn’t new news. This is another reason to put our military on the border and let the Border Patrol handle the administrative work. When they fire across the border as they did in Texas the return fire would come from a fighting vehicle or a Blackhawk not a SUV.
Report Post »flsnipe
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:44amIts good enough for our leaders why not? This is no big surprise!!!!!!
Report Post »GulfPeg
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:41amI suspected this years ago – nothing new! In fact didn’t anyone doubt Sutton, the Federal Prosecutor that sent the two border agents, Ramos and Compean to jail? It sure sounded fishy to me…
Report Post »ShyMan
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:40amBribed with sex and money. What else do you bribe with?
I guess our dollar is still worth something. Hmm.
Report Post »Miss America
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:41pmSomething tells me they take the money after sex. It’s not exactly the best part of the deal.
Report Post »siebegorman
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:27amIf we put the USMC on the border, no more corruption.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:36amI don’t know if that is a true statement…
There is corruption in all branches of the military already…
Report Post »101
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:43amsiebegorman
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:27am
If we put the USMC on the border, no more corruption
_________________________________________________
You nailed it!
Report Post »comeANDtakeIT_78629
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:56amyup the military needs to post up on the border put a good but woopin to any drug cartel criminals who try any funny business! I bet they wont dare try then!
Report Post »Assunta
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:58pmObama_Sham
Report Post »I don’t know if that is a true statement…
“There is corruption in all branches of the military already…”
Very True – this according to someone I know very well who just retired after serving in the military for decades.
angelcat
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:25amLittle by little our horrible illegal immigration policy is going to turn this country into another Mexico. Then wihere will be migrate to to escape? Perhaps we can take over Mexico (which will be almost empty) and turn it into the United States as the great country it used to be before the liberals reared their ugly heads and demolished everything good about it bit by bit.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:23amMoney and sex go a long way in every country. I wonder how many of our politicians fed like piggies at the money and sex trough.
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:22amLeft “bullets” out of the list……
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:19amBribery is business as usual in Mexico. Why wouldn’t they try it here?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:24amExactly.
How far will this be found to be running up the chain of command? Maybe all the way to the department heads of Justice and Homeland Security, and the White House?
Report Post »drago
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:38amBribing federal agents along the border has been going on for decades, nothing new here….
Report Post »NJTMATO
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:38amAGREED!!!! And @ Snow….you mentioned before….top down, bottom up….but you forgot to mention inside out!!!! I remember Bob Grant years ago……………..”It’s sick out there, and getting sicker”….true
Report Post »Texans stand UP
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:19pmTexascommonsense
Report Post »What Part of texas are you from?
Im In the central texas area.
ozchambers
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:16amThanks for the groundbreaking report, Captain Obvious.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:21amInteresting report – we need to shut our border down!!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-13c
Report Post »LVMerrily
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:35am@ Walk
Agreed! I live near Area 51 in NV – just try to get access there. So we know they can do it. They have a fence and then signs that say something like “if you aren’t supposed to be here expect lethal force.”
Report Post »Stevsea
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:16amTraitors.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:23amThese investigations need to go up the entire chain of command; all the way through the justice department, and the Homeland Security, along with seeing how many of the DC band are cooking the books with these Cartels.
Corruption, once rooted, works both ways, top down and bottom up. It needs to be investigated and dealt with decisivly. Thank God indeed for those who have true integrity and honor within their own professions.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:23am.
Report Post »Wonder how much they are paying Rick Perry?
cessna152
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:25am“Mexican drug cartels are successfully bribing U.S. border agents with money and sex.”
Works with Congressmen as well.
The devil plays the same game and we humans “bite” at it every time. Read history, it is crystal clear what happens next!
Report Post »LVMerrily
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:31amNew Illegal Alien Policy: Have a “reward bounty” on all illegals and pay $1000 at the border when they are deported. How anxious would others be if they knew the population was looking for them? Then the government would save all the salaries for INS, ICE and HSA, and all the other agencies not doing their jobs.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:33amAgreed…Prison isnt good enough for these aholes…
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:34amI believe if there is evidence of corruption it certainly should be investigated & those found guilty should be prosecuted – but I find it interesting that this story comes out immediately following the news of Rangers being shot at & the debate over “heavy fire” .
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:35amArrest them, try them, then hang em HIGH !!
Mexico has operated in this manner for decades.
It is so well known, it has it’s own slogan, “SILVER OR LEAD” – see:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/07/60minutes/main7223343.shtml
BUILD 2 dam fences!
1) with razor wire and signs stating that you will be shot on sight if you cross that fence.
2) a JURASSIC PARK electric fence
3) patrol in between with border patrol, dogs, video surveillence, thermal sensors/imaging, weekly sweeps with ground penetrating radar.
THE BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS, Obama!
Report Post »discardofevil
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:42amThe president is fully responsible! Him and the cabinet thugs could care less as long as they are pulling in votes!
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:42amThe good news is that our border with Mexico is now “safer than ever” according to Homeland Security guru Janet Napoleano…….ain’t she a hoot?!? I wonder if the cartel leaders have resorted to terrorism by threatening our border agents with sexual favors performed by women who kinda look like our beloved Homeland Security Chief if they don’t comply…….those are a brutal bunch of thugs, those cartel guys……
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:51amThey already have the top officials bribed.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:06amThe traitors are the FBI and BATFE that are allowing American guns, some 70% of all the weapons used by the cartels, to travel across the border in order to attack the 2nd Amendment rights of American citizens.
Report Post »realjohn
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:19amThere’s the “legal” payoffs and there’s the illegal payoffs. Always watch the other hand.
Report Post »Obamanomics: Mexico currently holds $20.7B in US Treasuries (that means we owe them). While we pay Mexico the interest on the debt, we give them money (“aid”) to help fund their drug war, dig for oil and anything else they want.
It’s like me going to a bank and borrowing money then giving the bank the money I just borrowed with no strings attached and paying the interest to the bank on the original loan. Then I have to pay back the principal of the loan when it matures. We are doing this with China who holds 1.1 Trillion and every other country who asks for it. Like Janet N says, common sense is not prerequisite for sound foreign policy. Total debt will exceed total GDP and default is in the cards.
When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?
kryptonite
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:19amI fully trust the troops alone, and they are being decimated and maimed both physically and psychological by the Top Traitor.
Report Post »jblovesAmerica
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:24amAnother good reason to pull the 4th ID from overseas-Put them on the border-Apache/C130 Gunships to keep America safe.
Report Post »Might take three days to secure the 2,000 mile.
Ft Hood is a great base of OPS-turn them loose.
101
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:37amBorder patrol agents in what should be a militarized zone, post the US military along the borders and put an end to all Napolitano’s BS excuses.
Report Post »W@nd@
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:38amwoah think that will happen?…
Report Post »from one of the most corrupt, intollerant, race baiting, double dealing, administrations in history….
oh yeah i get it!
this has been in place since Bush was potus
getting the drift…play the blame game
hmm hmm hmm!
funny thing with this bunch
they dont even get a sideways glance on their corruption….
just acting like there is none (((?))))
closing your eyes and looking the other way!
does not mean there is none!
When will some one investigate the crap going on NOW?
LeaderShip
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:43amLets use the same methods the Syrians use – land mines, can’t bribe one of those and needs less guards
Report Post »The Voice of Libertarian Reason
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:46amYou eliminated the need for cartels by legalizing drug use and regulating sales, such as with alcohol and tabacco. No cartels, no bribes, no dead Border Patrol agents, less addiction (proven in Portugal)…… and the list of positive consequences goes on.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:04pmWe have a war on our southern border! Bring our Troops home to fight this war!!!
Report Post »macwedge
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:24pmNapolitano needs to resign and be replaced with a military leader who knows SOMETHING about fighting a war…this is a border war, pure and simple.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:26pmNo more war.
Report Post »No Owebama
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:45pmWhy should the border patrol agents act any diffrently than our elected representatives? It is a shame what this country has become.
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 1:13pmI would say that probably there are a lot less “traitors” that fall for the bribery thing. One thing that I noticed is that they are claiming about hiring all these “crooks” between 2006 and 2008, up until the time that the “messiah” took over. Also this is probably another ploy to protect their plans to NOT protect our borders and this would help them “explain” hide what they are doing. One more thing, how could all of this be going on when napolitano herself says that our borders are secure so that we don’t have to do anything more to stop it from happening.
Report Post »I Stand With Israel
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 1:15pmagreed. this is treason.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 2:40pmThe feds say it would cost too much to build a fence. How much money would we save if we didn’t have to pay for welfare, food stamps, schooling, etc on all these border crossing criminals.
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:02pmAnthony weiner for border control 2012 !
Report Post »Doodidle
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:09pmThey should deport the traitors and leave them on the other side of the border. The DHS should ask some of us to go patrol. They need patriots not pinheads to watch our border! Or they could have the national guard go and patrol. 127 arrest in the BP is way too many! obviously the system isnt working.
Report Post »fightback
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:24pmHey Weiner wlould make a good border agent
Report Post »LibertariansUnite
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:49pmWait, you mean the drug war is…….failing?????????????
Ron Paul 2012
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:01pmwow..what a surprise…hope they do not buy the internal affairs unit…
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:13pmObama is too busy facing east to take care of the southern border.
Report Post »Oathkeeper_MP
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 2:53amI’m disappointed at the spin used in this story. I’ll attempt to correct the bias as best I can.
1). “since October 2004”: Over half a decade.
2). “127 Customs and Border Protection employees”: CBP employees means all echelons. Also, CBP is not the US Border Patrol, they are the ‘blue shirt’ officers you encounter at a US port of entry, not to be mistaken for Border Patrol Agents under USBP. Those employees found guilty range from officers to office employees to retired former employees selling information or engaging in illicit activities.
3). “corruption”: this term is very ambiguous and incites an instant, predisposed prejudice of thought against the agency as a whole.
CBP/USBP is the largest law enforcement agency in the US, so by virtue of deduction it stands to reason that it will have the spotlight shined the brightest upon it. However, do the math: 127 divided by 6 years is an average of 21 employees per year. 21 out of an employee pool of over 100,000 and the percentage drops significantly.
Bottom line: there is always going to be dirtbags in every law enforcement organization. It’s sad but unavoidable. Prosecute them. However, try to remain impartial and keep an open mind, think for yourself and then place your support behind the other 99% of us down here keeping America safe 24/7-365. Not everyone is a dirt bag, shame on you Blaze for painting with such a broad brush. Up to this story, I had faith in you, Glenn.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:12amWhy does anybody expect the phony “War on Drugs” to be any different?
BIG money is involved:
How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s
murderous drug gangs.
As the violence spread, billions of
dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global
financial system. But a special investigation by the
Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of
one London whistleblower were ignored
The Guardian.co.uk
by Ed Vulliamy
The Observer, Sunday 3 April 2011
During a 22-month investigation by agents from the US
Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue
Service and others, it emerged that the cocaine smugglers
had bought the plane with money they had laundered
through one of the biggest banks in the United States:
Wachovia, now part of the giant Wells Fargo.
The authorities uncovered billions of dollars in wire
transfers, traveller’s cheques and cash shipments through
Mexican exchanges into Wachovia accounts. Wachovia was
put under immediate investigation for failing to maintain
an effective anti-money laundering programme. Of special
significance was that the period concerned began in 2004,
which coincided with the first escalation of violence
along the US-Mexico border that ignited the current drugs
war.
Criminal proceedings were brought against Wachovia,
Report Post »though not against any individual, but the case never
came to court.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexic
CaptainKook
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:20amSoory, the link above didn’t post correctly.
Report Post »here it is again:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs