Maybe it’s the third world. Two border patrol agents have been caught taking thousands of dollars in bribes to allow people to enter the country through the nation’s busiest port of entry without showing documents. Both men were paid thousands for each vehicle they waved through.
While Almonte was in custody, investigators allegedly seized nearly $70,000 in cash they believe his romantic partner was trying to move to Tijuana. Prosecutors wrote in a court filing that Almonte is potentially facing additional charges for money laundering and obstruction of justice..There have been five US Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to the San Diego area to face similar corruption charges in the last two years.
Keep telling me how we need to defend Federal workforce jobs.
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SoCoRuss · April 6, 2025 at 12:44 pm
They need to make an example of these guys to make a point. You not gonna do your job, enjoy the fed pen as a former LEO. They LOVE feds in there.
Maybe have a bonus system tied into catching both people and contraband.
But in reality there are 2 ways to get stuff thru as Matt Bracken says: Silver or lead and that is very true on how its works on the border. But we need to send a very clear message that there are rules, you kill our people and we drop a 2000lbs bomb on your house while you and family are sleeping. Yep another Vato will take your place but we got lots of fucking bombs for that Vato and the next and the next too. Make General Dynamics Great Again…
To me Its fuck it, shut the South border down completely and build a wall with towers and weapons and ground penetrating radar for tunnels. If by chance Mexico gets their shit together in the future great if not Fuck Them and their Narco state. But the North Border has been picking up as a flow thru so that will need to be dealt with too.
Alex Lund · April 7, 2025 at 10:41 am
I prefer the old ways. If a person in such a position of power abuses it, the person should be given a pen, paper (to write the last will) and a gun loaded with one bullet and 5 minutes.
Skeptic · April 6, 2025 at 9:47 pm
Farris Almonte and Ricardo Rodriguez. I’m shocked, yes shocked, that Mexican BP agents might be corrupt in terms of protecting the Mexican border.
Jonathan · April 7, 2025 at 2:15 am
I’m not at all surprised.
I assume the caught ones were either bad at hiding what they did, or they were ratted out by a competitor of the one paying them.
I’ve seen studies claiming that 1/3rd of CBP employees are on the take, 1/3rd are too scared to do their jobs, so any real work is done by 1/3rd of the personnel on the border – and the smugglers know who they are and when they are working, so they avoid those times.
TRX · April 7, 2025 at 8:12 am
them: “You can’t hold the whole organization at fault for the actions of a few individuals.”
me: “Nobody was running a scam like that alone. Anyone who knew and turned a blind eye, was aiding and abetting it. Anyone who didn’t know, tough. Keep a better eye on your co-workers next time.”
Aesop · April 7, 2025 at 6:08 pm
By direct firsthand personal observation on the Mexican border, 30% of CBP officers are dedicated public servants standing on the line trying to protect America from the scum of the earth.
Another 30% are there to get a paycheck and a pension, and they do the job, just not too hard, trying to make it to 30 years.
Another 30% are wholly owned by the cartels, fully on the take, and do everything from actively assisting, to just looking the other way as often as they can get away with it.
The last 10% are upper management, who are generally there to do as little as possible, do nothing good, prohibit and misdirect as a matter of policy, and if they can get a second payday for actively doing bad, so much the better. Most of them should be summarily placed against a wall and shot, if only for the 500% efficiency and morale boost it would cause in the agency.
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