BBC: Two former officers of the US Border Patrol have been found guilty of using their position to smuggle hundreds of illegal immigrants across the border from Mexico for personal gain.
Raul Villarreal and his brother, Fidel, were also convicted of accepting bribes and conspiring to launder money.
Before the case, Raul Villarreal often appeared as a high-profile spokesman for the US Border Patrol agency. Read more.
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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