U.s. law enforcement

In El Paso, Texas, a major embarrassment for American law enforcement: u.s. Customs and Border Protection officer Margarita Crispin was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sale of Mexican drug traffickers.

"It was amazing to us to find out that Margarita Crispin received $ 5 million for her services to loads of marijuana to come through its checkpoint along the border," said Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Division of the FBI, NBC News.

In the Mexican drug war, US authorities are finding a disturbing trend: an increase in the u.s. law enforcement officials damaged by wealthy Mexican criminals who pay them look the other way as illegal drugs and immigrants flow North in the United States.
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"It is the most debilitating factor in the successful law enforcement on the border, and we do a terrible job of weeding out corruption," says retired DEA supervisor Anthony Coulson.

In the past five years, nearly 80 U.s. Border Patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection officers have been arrested along the Mexican border, and according to the federal authorities, hundreds more officials are examined.

"As soon as they exceed the limit, they are criminals, criminals who in our uniform," explains Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner David Aguilar.

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Corruption runs deep
During a hearing of the Senate of the u.s., it was revealed that Mexican cartel members are infiltrating U.s. law enforcement. There was also testimony that only 10% of the first-time applicants during a hiring push five years ago began to add thousands of border patrol and CBP officers, polygraph tests were given.
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Those, not 60%, concerns about the integrity of the others hired without screening.

"A very large percentage of those they not test run into problems within a year or two of hired," says senator Mark Pryor, D-Ark..

Along the border, the federal authorities are not the only ones with corruption problems. Local authorities, including sheriffs and police officers, are also succumbed to the temptation of drug money.
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In South Texas, former Sheriffs Conrado Cantu and Reymundo Guerra were imprisoned for helping Mexican smugglers, while in nearby Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez says corruption is rampant.

"It's greed, that is what it always has been, it's greed. It just lacks that extra $ 10,000, $ 15,000, $ 20,000, "explains Gonzalez.

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