Badge for Sale - The Tales of MICE and Men - Los Angeles Homeland Security

Submitted by Anna on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 17:22

Julia Davis
August 15, 2010

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Published by The Examiner.com.

Mexican drug cartels and smuggling organizations use the old Soviet principles, summarized by the cold war acronym MICE (Money, Ideology, Compromise and Ego) in their approach to recruiting border agents. Oftentimes, the smugglers don’t have to swim, run or climb a fence. All they need is a corrupt border official on the take—and the numbers of crooked law enforcement officials are simply staggering.

On August 12, 2010 Congress passed the Border Security Appropriations Bill, providing $196 million for the Department of Justice to surge federal law enforcement efforts in high crime areas in the Southwest Border region.

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