Border Corruption Often Has Family Roots
This article by Nicole Cobler in the Texas Tribune offers some interesting insights about how family financial pressures can lead to corruption by Border Patrol officers. She writes that “one striking hallmark of border corruption cases is how often the drift into illegal behavior begins with family considerations or entanglements. . . . For [one officer], it started when he solicited bribes to fund a costly legal battle to get his wife’s son back from his father in Mexico, he says. But once the illicit cash started flowing, he never found the will to turn it off.”
It does seem that we read stories regularly about such corruption.
Hat tip to our Texas correspondent, Professor Cappy White.
KJ
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