Corrupt Border Agents Get Long Prison Terms

[Valin]

Friends Of Ours:

6/23/13

 

Two border agents have been sentenced to hard time "for running a ring that smuggled hundreds of illegal immigrants into the United States" as reported by The Associated Press:

 

Judge John A. Houston of Federal District Court on Friday sentenced Raul Villarreal to 35 years for being the ringleader and ordered him to pay a $250,000 fine. Fidel Villarreal, his brother, was sentenced to 30 years for managing the illicit business.

American law enforcement finally has recognized that many U.S. border towns are little more than banana republics beholden to the Mexican drug cartels, and federal and state officials are dropping in to sweep up as reported by Jeri Clausing for The Associated Press: "state and federal agencies are cracking down on border town corruption as part of the larger effort to battle Mexican drug cartels."

 

Of course, it is axiomatic that organized crime cannot exist without public corruption.

 

The Mexican cartels move $50 billion in bulk product and bundled cash across the border each year, and have established supply lines, distribution networks and operational cells in hundreds of communties throughout the United States. There is no way that such a well-entrenched operation could be so successfully accomplished without a little help from well-placed friends.

 

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Further reading that may be of interest:

 

President Obama Cedes Border To Drug Cartels