The Villarreal investigation (see link) is among scores of corruption cases in recent years that have alarmed officials in the Homeland Security Department just as it is hiring thousands of border agents to stem the flow of illegal immigration.
The pattern has become familiar: Customs officers wave in vehicles filled with illegal immigrants, drugs or other contraband. A Border Patrol agent acts as a scout for smugglers. Trusted officers fall prey to temptation and begin taking bribes.
The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity. It is also the land where crime became "organised", after the "cowboy days" of the Roaring 20's.
Americans are adept at seeing opportunity where others might not. So is it any wonder that, in the face of the looming economic train wreck brought on by the Bush government, that individual citizens will seek their own "solutions"?
This is only the beginning.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/us/27border.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1211897533-dnSIrkfxpaKnsxCtbwMiKg
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