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Two Southern California Border Inspectors are under arrest. They’re charged with “taking thousands of dollars in bribes to allow people to enter the country.” The cartels are learning quickly that it’s not going to be business as usual now that the Trump administration is in charge.
Waved through the border
The easiest way to break through border security is with help from customs inspectors. Everyone has their price and two agents based at San Ysidro pulled in thousands at a time.
All they had to do was wave a few migrants through “the nation’s busiest port of entry” without keeping any records.
According to Customs and Border Protection, both Farlis Almonte and Ricardo Rodriguez “were assigned to immigration inspection booths at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.”
Investigators got their first clue when coyotes they arrested in Mexico had phone messages exchanged with the agents. After that, investigators turned up “unexplained cash deposits into their bank accounts.”
As described in the court paperwork, “surveillance video showed at least one instance in which a vehicle with a driver and a passenger stopped at a checkpoint but only the driver was documented as having entered the country.”
The passenger could have been a terrorist straight from the caves of Afghanistan but the border inspectors didn’t care.
Thousands for each vehicle
Prosecutors allege that the pair “waved dozens of vehicles carrying people without documents” right across the border without question and “were paid thousands for each vehicle they waved through.”
It’s not clear if Almonte has an attorney but Rodriguez does. His lawyer wasn’t ready to say much to the press. The case, he notes, is in the “infant stages.” Every accused criminal is entitled to due process and he’s looking forward “to working through the current situation.”
He also described his client as “hardworking and loyal.” When he isn’t a traitor. That sounds like he’s realistic enough to be setting up a deal for leniency rather than trying to insult everyone’s intelligence by claiming Rodriguez is as innocent as a tender young virgin.

Another fun fact revealed by the investigation reports, three migrant smugglers they busted last year admitted to federal investigators “they had been working with U.S. border inspectors.”
Under the Biden administration, national security was a total mess. Once they had Almonte in cuffs, they “seized nearly $70,000 in cash they believe his romantic partner was trying to move to Tijuana.” For that, Almonte is “potentially facing additional charges for money laundering and obstruction of justice.”
As acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Haden relates, “any Customs and Border Protection agent who aids or turns a blind eye to smugglers bringing undocumented immigrants into the U.S. is betraying their oath and endangering our national security.” Attorney General Pam Bondi can’t wait to prosecute them.
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