US border agents charged with taking bribes to let in undocumented migrants
Two US border inspectors in Southern California have been charged with taking bribes to allow people to enter the country without showing documents, according to prosecutors.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers Farlis Almonte and Ricardo Rodriguez were charged after investigators found phone evidence showing they had exchanged messages with human traffickers in Mexico and discovered unexplained cash deposits into their bank accounts, according to a criminal complaint unsealed last week.
Prosecutors said the officers waved dozens of vehicles carrying people without documents at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, which connects San Diego in the US and Tijuana in Mexico and is one of the world’s busiest land border crossings.
The two men were paid thousands of dollars for each vehicle they waved through, prosecutors said.
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