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    Border Patrol agents accused of taking bribes

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    Border Patrol agents accused of taking bribes

    Associated Press
    Mar. 9, 2006 02:35 PM


    SAN DIEGO - Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were arrested Thursday on charges of sneaking illegal immigrants out of jail in exchange for $300,000 in cash bribes.

    Mario Alvarez, 44, and Samuel McClaren, 43, released inmates from an immigration jail to a smuggling ring that operates in El Centro, about 120 miles east of San Diego, according to a federal complaint filed in January and unsealed Thursday. The smugglers then allegedly took the migrants to Los Angeles.

    The agents were assigned to a joint effort between the Border Patrol and Mexico's attorney general's office under which migrants arrested in the United States were deported to Mexico for prosecution, the complaint said. McClaren ran the program from July 2003 to the end of last year.

    Some of the released inmates allegedly belonged to the smuggling ring. The complaint said the Border Patrol agents brought two smugglers across the border into the United States in a government vehicle in September 2004 and arranged the release of one of them from jail three months later in exchange for $10,000.

    In October 2005, Alvarez signed a warrant that falsely stated a migrant was deported, when, in fact, he was dropped off at a Wal-Mart parking lot for $6,000, according to the complaint.

    Both men, of Imperial, were charged with conspiracy, bribery, making false statements, migrant smuggling and filing false tax returns.
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    Border agents arrested on smuggling charges


    By Angelica Martinez
    UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM

    12:37 p.m. March 9, 2006

    SAN DIEGO – Two supervising U.S. Border Patrol agents were arrested Thursday on suspicion of smuggling undocumented immigrants in exchange for bribes from a smuggling ring, federal officials said.
    Mario Alvarez, 44, and Samuel McClaren, 43, both of Imperial, were indicted Tuesday on eight counts that include conspiracy to bring in aliens for financial gain, conspiracy to commit bribery and filing false tax returns, the U.S. Attorney's office announced.

    The indictment said the agents received bribes of approximately $300,000 from members of the Javier Sanchez-Perfino Alien smuggling organization.

    They also released, or facilitated the release of, illegal immigrants and smugglers, who were also undocumented, officials said. The immigrants were then turned over to the smuggling organization in exchange for money.

    In one instance, authorities say, Alvarez and McClaren drove a member of the smuggling organization in a U.S. government vehicle from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service Processing Center in El Centro to a Wal-Mart parking lot in Calexico. The ring member was then let go in exchange for $6,000, officials said.

    “There can be no pursuit of justice where our law enforcement agents are corrupt,” United States Attorney Carol C. Lam said in a written statement. “If the defendants have chosen this path, they will face the consequences.”

    The men were arrested by agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the Inspector General and agents of the Internal Revenue Service.

    Authorities said they don't know when the suspected conspiracy began, but noted in the indictment that the crimes occurred up until Tuesday.

    The two men were assigned to the Mexican Liason Unit in El Centro and worked in the Guide Identification Prosecution Program. The program stems from an agreement between the United States and Mexico under which suspected smugglers are deported to Mexico and are prosecuted by Mexican authorities if they are not prosecuted in the United States.


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    Well Bush does want us to be more like Mexico, I guess with this rash of corruption, he is getting his wish. My only surprise is that his cronies at the top of ICE and DHS aren't getting bought and owned by the smugglers and drug cartels too, or maybe they already have.
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