If Trump becomes prez maybe he should put his efforts toward cleaning up our own country's actions at the border rather than bloviating about building a wall.
(The Texas Tribune is taking a year-long look at the issues of border security and immigration. This part of the project focuses on U.S. law enforcement corruption, which has undermined efforts to secure the border.)
"It looked like a crab trap said a man who spotted it while boating with his two daughters... but when he poked the floating mass with a pole, he discovered otherwise. He dialed 911 and told the South Padre Island Police Department what he’d found: “A headless body floating in the bay.”
Luckily, the body still had hands. Using a portable fingerprint reader from U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, police quickly matched the prints to Jose Francisco Palacios Paz. ...[authorities] believed Palacios Paz — about to rat out a drug-trafficking operation with links to the powerful Mexican Gulf Cartel — met his end. However, there was one late-breaking and quite unexpected development: the alleged involvement and eventual arrest of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.Joel Luna, a six-year Border Patrol veteran, was supposed to protect the country from drug trafficking and spillover violence. If the indictments are to be believed, he participated in it instead.
Dirty cops and dirty Border Patrol agents are nothing new. More than 130 officers employed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection have been caught in alleged acts of mission-compromising corruption — often by letting drugs, undocumented immigrants or both into the country — over the past decade. While that’s a tiny fraction of the total number of agents, report after report has suggested the known cases may be the tip of the iceberg.
How did a decorated Iraq War veteran sworn to protect the U.S. border end up in an orange jumpsuit potentially facing life in prison? Cameron County authorities have a simple theory: Luna and his two brothers — Fernando and Eduardo — operated a criminal enterprise centered on drug trafficking, partially run out of Veteran’s Tire shop. Palacios Paz was killed because he knew too much, they say.
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(The Texas Tribune is taking a year-long look at the issues of border security and immigration. This part of the project focuses on U.S. law enforcement corruption, which has undermined efforts to secure the border.)
"It looked like a crab trap said a man who spotted it while boating with his two daughters... but when he poked the floating mass with a pole, he discovered otherwise. He dialed 911 and told the South Padre Island Police Department what he’d found: “A headless body floating in the bay.”
Luckily, the body still had hands. Using a portable fingerprint reader from U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, police quickly matched the prints to Jose Francisco Palacios Paz. ...[authorities] believed Palacios Paz — about to rat out a drug-trafficking operation with links to the powerful Mexican Gulf Cartel — met his end. However, there was one late-breaking and quite unexpected development: the alleged involvement and eventual arrest of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.Joel Luna, a six-year Border Patrol veteran, was supposed to protect the country from drug trafficking and spillover violence. If the indictments are to be believed, he participated in it instead.
Dirty cops and dirty Border Patrol agents are nothing new. More than 130 officers employed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection have been caught in alleged acts of mission-compromising corruption — often by letting drugs, undocumented immigrants or both into the country — over the past decade. While that’s a tiny fraction of the total number of agents, report after report has suggested the known cases may be the tip of the iceberg.
How did a decorated Iraq War veteran sworn to protect the U.S. border end up in an orange jumpsuit potentially facing life in prison? Cameron County authorities have a simple theory: Luna and his two brothers — Fernando and Eduardo — operated a criminal enterprise centered on drug trafficking, partially run out of Veteran’s Tire shop. Palacios Paz was killed because he knew too much, they say.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...f-border-patrol-agent/?utm_term=.3a13b29b2e65
