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National Guard corruption highlights border security challenges

By Gritsforbreakfast

Two of the National Guard troops deployed in 2006 by Gov. Perry as part of Operation Linebacker have been convicted of helping smuggle illegal immigrants across the border, further evidence that it's the checkpoints, not the empty spaces in between, serving as primary entry points for illegal smugglers. Another National Guardsman was arrested recently in Fort Worth smuggling drugs when he bragged to an informant how he eluded police.So it appears the National Guard troops sent by the governor to "secure" the border have proven as subject to corruption as every other border enforcement agency. I continue to believe this cross-border trade can only exist because of official corruption on both sides of the border.You hear folks say we must "secure the border first," but I think that's premature...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).