[wildbill]

If you were a smart drug lord and had to smuggle large quantities of drugs across a border, wouldn't one of the smartest things you could do be to corrupt local and US officials? Maybe even finance them into elected office or get your people into place in the Customs.

Lead or silver? They know it works.

[ConsentofGoverned]

IF you make Billions bribes of millions is not a problem

The open border is a very clear indication of success for<> the criminals -homegrown and foreign.

[archy]

If you were a smart drug lord and had to smuggle large quantities of drugs across a border, wouldn't one of the smartest things you could do be to corrupt local and US officials?

The term for such bought-off or implicated cops and other officials is deditos, *little fingers.*

It's a mainstay of the way the cartels have done business, up to and including a couple of the top Administrators at DEA. And occasionally, higher.