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Home U.S. World Entertainment Sports Business Health Science Technology Politics Offbeat Environment Travel News Articles Mexico Wins Praise for Anti-Drug Effort While Corruption Along the Border Continues Email Facebook Digg Twitter Buzz Up! ShareThis March 12, 2010 6:55 p.m. EST Topics: politics, law enforcement, diplomacy, international relations, police, crime, law and justice, organized crime, United States Tom Ramstack - AHN Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) - Mexico's effort to stop drug smuggling won support from the European Parliament this week even while U.S. law enforcement officials warned that smugglers had infiltrated the ranks of customs agents who are supposed to stop them. The European Parliament passed a resolution saying it "supports the Mexican government in its determination to combat the organized crime of narco-trafficking." However, the resolution expressed "deep concern over the increase in violence related to narco-trafficking and the lack of respect and feeling of impunity of the drug cartels toward any type of authority." Members of the European Union parliament blamed the escalation of violence on disputes between drug cartels to control "the huge market represented by the United States" as much as on the "impact of the Mexican government's offensive against the situation." The resolution condemned the "persistent death threats" against human rights activists and the murders of journalists and women. Members of a U.S. Senate subcommittee were equally condemning Thursday toward Mexican drug gangs during a hearing into corruption among customs agents. The gangs have succeeded in bribing or infiltrating customs agents too often, according to law enforcement witnesses and subcommittee members. Since late 2004, 103 U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have been arrested or indicted on corruption charges, according to Homeland Security Department officials. Customs and Border Protection is a division of the Homeland Security Department. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), who chairs the homeland security subcommittee, said, "This is something critically important that we need to address quickly. We're on very dangerous ground here." Charges against the Customs and Border Protection agents have included drug smuggling, money laundering and illegal alien smuggling, said James Tomsheck, a Customs and Border Protection internal affairs officer. He said the charges represented an effort by criminal organizations to "infiltrate" the agency by getting gang members hired or by bribing the border agents. The subcommittee called the hearing to determine whether the federal government needs to spend more money to root out corruption along the border. FBI and Homeland Security Department officials said they have fallen behind in their efforts to screen the officers who patrol U.S. borders. About 60 percent of applicants to U.S. Customs and Border Protection fail polygraph tests, according to witnesses at the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing. However, the agency had the resources to administer polygraphs to only about 15 percent of its job applicants by the end of 2009. The 15 percent figure was up from 10 percent a year earlier. Only a few officers become involved in organized crime along the border, said Kevin L. Perkins, an FBI agent who investigates government corruption. Nevertheless, corruption among the roughly 41,000 Customs and Border Protection frontline agents "is significantly pervasive," Perkins told the Senate panel. Examples of corruption Perkins mentioned included the July 2007 arrest of border patrol inspector Margarita Crispen in El Paso, Texas. She allegedly received more than $5 million in bribes for helping drug cartels import about 2,200 pounds of marijuana. She was sentenced to 22 years in prison. In another case, the FBI and Canadian law enforcement officials arrested eight people in July 2008 accused of smuggling cocaine, marijuana and illegal immigrants into the United States from Quebec. One of the people arrested was a customs agent. Copyright © 2003 - 2010 AHN - All rights reserved.Redistribution, republication. syndication, rewriting or broadcast is prohibited without the prior written consent of AHN.License AHN news for your website, business, digital signage network or publication. 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