tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post115939161274532833..comments2024-03-15T05:45:01.402-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Border corruption hinders border securityGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1159808000033203312006-10-02T11:53:00.000-05:002006-10-02T11:53:00.000-05:00--Consider: On the Texas border, at least 10 offic...--Consider: On the Texas border, at least 10 officers have been charged or sentenced in corruption schemes over the past year, including four Border Patrol agents — all assigned to the same highway checkpoint — who admitted taking money to let both drugs and migrants pass.--<BR/><BR/>You wouldn't have the ethnicity of these 10 mentioned agents would you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1159404600150093022006-09-27T19:50:00.000-05:002006-09-27T19:50:00.000-05:00I'm SHOCKED, I tell ya...SHOCKED that Prohibition ...I'm SHOCKED, I tell ya...SHOCKED that Prohibition increases police and government corruption <BR/><BR/>Steve in ClearwaterSteveHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06218827395150404725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1159401792517083222006-09-27T19:03:00.000-05:002006-09-27T19:03:00.000-05:00Why is this not surprising?A friend once recounted...Why is this not surprising?<BR/><BR/>A friend once recounted how a Mexican guard once got on his bus at Nuevo Laredo and asked for two dollars per passenger so that the luggage wouldn't be searched. Everyone complied. But the Mexican guard's take is a mere "<I>mordita</I>" when compared to the guys in this report.<BR/><BR/>As for for drugs, I've always maintained the fastest way to improve public safety in Mexico and the border region and diminish corruption down here would be to legalize drugs.<BR/><BR/>The stories are both hillarious and calamitous that people tell me about their brushes with Narcotics traffickers. Narcos used to be my neighbors here in Guadalajara. A Canadian classmate, down here for a student exchange, was shot dead outside an upscale nightclub - hit in a driveby, the son of public enemy No. 1 is the main suspect. Mariachi muscians I've interviewed say their business stinks because fewer narcos live in Guadalajara than before (the narcos have moved on to other Mexican cities.)<BR/><BR/>Where does this all end?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com