Do the math: Southern California has a 200-mile-long fence along its border with Mexico. Of the 172 current corruption cases involving U.S. Border Patrol guards, 72 – 40 percent – involve guards from Southern California. Now, if the U.S. government extends the wall another 700 miles, increasing its length by a factor of 3.5, then we could realistically expect the percentage of corruption cases centered on the U.S.-Mexico border to approach 90 percent or more.
Why? Because when they make it more difficult to cross the border, it causes an escalation in tactics by criminals. The bribe money goes up, the women they use to entice agents get more irresistible and the potential payoffs increase geometrically, not arithematically. And then there are the illegal aliens working for the Border Patrol, helping friends, relatives and countrymen to come to this great country where you can lie about your citizenship on a job application, pass a nonexistent background check, get a cool badge and be given the keys to the henhouse.
Of course, with the Border Patrol among the lowest-paid federal agencies, with morale in the toilet and the fact that the BP has started scraping the barrel bottom for new recruits, it’s no wonder picking up a few grand of easy money for letting a couple of cars pass through unsearched is difficult to resist.
Sorry Mr. Frost, good fences don’t make better neighbors, they just make worse border guards. For more details, go here.
