The folly of the 'war on drugs', is laid open here in this chapter. There has to be a more intelligent way for society to look at this plague,courtesy of Washington.There are some passages in here that caught my eye,like this one....a U.S. News & World Report article (March 8, 1999) was “The Corrupting Allure of dirty drug money.” with the subtitle, “Are Mexico’s cartels buying U.S. cops?” ....and I ask myself 20 years later,has it got any better?Is this the reason for the internal opposition to a wall? These cartels have far too much reach in this country,more then most want to believe,the country needs to make the cartel's product worthless here.

[....On October 29, 1985, he seized 400 grams of Mexican brown tar heroin and was then ordered by his supervisors to give the heroin back to the Mexican drug trafficker and release the person. This happened several times and Carman said the supervisors who ordered him to release the heroin were Charlie Gastellum and Honorio Garia. Carman reported this violation to Customs’ Office of Internal Affairs. No action was taken.

• In June 1988, while working at the Commercial Export Gate at San Ysidro, a suspicious looking sealed container arrived from the Long Beach holding area. Before Carman could inspect the container, his supervisor, Filenon Fuentes, cleared it without conducting any examination.

• He was ordered to remove data from Customs database that he had inserted earlier, that required a suspected Mexican drug trafficker, Jorge Hank Rhon, to be checked for drugs whenever he crossed the border checkpoint. Rhon had powerful political connections on both sides of the border; he had a private zoo near his Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, and was the son of one of Mexico’s top drug lords, Carlos Hank Gonzalez, a former Agriculture Minister. The senior Rhon was manager of the Grupo Hank Business Empire based in Tijuana, which had controlling interests in many businesses. These included banks on both sides of the border, and an interest in Taesa Airline, which had a drug-hauling reputation. Hank Gonzalez‘s son, Carlos Hank Rhon, was reportedly the one who used Citibank to hide the drug money of Raul Salinas, whose brother was the president of Mexico. Despite this history, Customs supervisors removed the red tag from the computer database. .....

....In the lawsuit and an interview, Carman accused Customs agents, including supervisors, of allowing people with drug connections to waltz across the border without being checked, as well as accepting bribes, falsifying reports and deleting information about certain people from intelligence files. “They don’t want you to do your duty,” he said.

“They want you to look the other way. They don’t want you to search certain people. It’s obvious that they are trying to show preferential treatment for certain people. The drugs that are caught at the border are usually small amounts being carried by “non-professionals,” he said. “The type of stuff that we’re getting at the lower level is a mere pittance compared to what’s actually coming through, and when we do focus on a big one it’s by accident,” Carman said.

“Customs agents’ anger borders on revolt,” read the headline on a San Diego Union-Tribune (October 1, 1995) article with the subtitle, “Many accuse bosses of corruption, indifference.” The article stated in part:

Across the country, men and women on the front lines of the U.S. Customs Service are at war with their own superiors. They have alleged corruption at the highest levels, and many say that in doing their jobs they feel more like clerks than cops these days. Employees of the federal government’s oldest law enforcement agency laments that their very mission, collecting trade revenue, arresting import smugglers and inspecting everything from baby clothes to contraband, is being eroded from within. Nowhere has this criticism been more vocal than in San Diego County. ...]
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