Leonard George, 42, a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer convicted of taking bribes to allow drug-laden vehicles across the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced to over 23 years in prison last week.
Prosecutors say that in late 2021, George was assigned to the primary inspection booth at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
On one of at least 19 occasions, George was paid $68,000 for allowing four vehicles to cross the border undetected. Among the purchases George made with his bribe money were cars, motorcycles and jewelry, prosecutors said.
In related news:
● The use of fentanyl has nearly tripled in Baja California in the last two years, according to the state’s health secretary, José Adrián Medina Amarillas.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California, in a 2 to 1 decision last week upheld a lower court’s ruling finding that the policy of U.S. border agents turning away migrants at the Southwest border when daily numbers exceeded a certain amount was a violation of federal immigration law.
“A lot of people are dying because of fentanyl, especially out on the streets, most times they can’t get to hospitals in time to seek medical help,” he said.
Meanwhile, the appeals court ruling found that the Asylum Transit Rule — also known as “metering” — violated the Administrative Procedure Act, even if the asylum-seekers had not yet crossed into the United States.
In 2018, the Trump administration expanded the process throughout the entire Southwest border until it became obsolete in 2019 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck and Title 42 was implemented in March 2020. Title 42 largely prevented asylum-seekers from crossing at U.S. border ports.
The appeal’s court ruling comes after a federal district judge in San Diego ruled in September 2021 that U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s use of metering on asylum-seekers was unconstitutional.
The lawsuit originated by a Non-Government Agency (NGO), the liberal California-based nonprofit Al Otro Lado. This is a process used heavily by the Biden-Harris Administration to help asylum-seekers cross over the border, including groups of migrants subjected to metering.
● In New Mexico, two men have been charged with conspiracy to transport illegal aliens in connection to a migrant stash house in Las Cruces.
Federal court records show agents with the anti-smuggling unit of the U.S. Border Patrol had set up surveillance near a Las Cruces home where they suspected migrants were being brought in from El Paso, Texas, to await transportation to the interior of the United States.
● In August, thirty-three stash houses were identified with 91 migrants being harbored in Doña Ana and Luna counties, New Mexico.
● In September, a storage shed in South El Paso, Texas, was found with limited airflow and small windows to stash 72 migrants when U.S. Border Patrol officials went to arrest a man wanted by Interpol for murder.
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People treating people like garbage, using each other for profit, dying like rats. It sounds like a Dickens description of London’s slums, multiplied by thousands. The regime in place are like slum lords, not American.
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Are Democratic Party politicians taking money from the drug cartels? I keep wondering.
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Absolutely. Also real estate & other valuables.
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