CBS11

Customs officials are telling Congress that Mexican drug cartels are infiltrating federal law enforcement agencies along the southwest border. And those charged with weeding them out say they don’t have the money to catch all the corrupt agents.

James Tomsheck, assistant commissioner with U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Internal Affairs, told a Senate panel Thursday that only about one in 10 of the new hires for agency jobs are given polygraph tests. And of those who take them, 60 percent are deemed unsuitable for employment.

The Associated Press reported last year that four applicants for border protection jobs were were not hired when polygraph tests and background checks confirmed they were infiltrators from drug trafficking operations.

U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Arkansas, who chaired the hearing of the Homeland Security subcommittee, said Tomsheck’s figures were alarming.

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How many times do I have to say it: This is what happens when you hire Mexicans to work on the U.S. side of the border. The majority of our Customs Border Patrol/ Border Patrol agents on the southern border are Mexican nationals. Many of the police/sheriff’s departments on the U.S. side of the border are exclusively made up of Mexicans. It is a fact that Mexicans are notoriously corrupt. And we’re sitting around scratching our noggins asking why our southern border is completely open especially to Mexicans? This isn’t rocket science. We can easily close our southern border by simply replacing the Mexicans with U.S. Nationalists. There is no reason why we should have Mexicans guarding our gates; unless of course we purposely want to leave our gates open to Mexicans and their unending corruption.