News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, March 26, 2007

Border officer to be sentenced in smuggling case

SIGNONSANDIEGO NEWS SERVICES
3:33 a.m. March 26, 2007
SAN DIEGO – Sentencing is scheduled Monday for a former Customs and Border Protection officer who admitted allowing hundreds of illegal immigrants to be smuggled through his inspection lane in return for cash and gifts.

Richard Elizalda, 56, pleaded guilty last September to one count of bribery of a public official and two counts of bringing in illegal aliens for financial gain.

Elizalda and seven co-defendants were charged last June in a 15-count indictment alleging bribery, conspiracy, bringing in illegal aliens for financial gain, importation of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, filing a false tax return and criminal forfeiture.

Elizalda admitted he received between $70,000 and $120,000 in U.S. currency and benefits from members of an alien-smuggling organization, operated by two of his co-defendants, for not enforcing U.S. immigration laws.

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