The Worst of the Worst: Inside 95 Investigations of Border Officers

In 2020, a Customs and Border Protection officer boarded a flight in St. Thomas with his badge, his gun and 16 bricks of cocaine in his carry-on bags. He didn’t have to go through security. It took a drug-sniffing dog in Atlanta to catch him. John Carlos Frey goes through an exclusive list of 95 internal investigations into CBP officers and Border Patrol agents, closed by the Homeland Security inspector general between 2023 and 2025 and obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by attorney Andrew Free.

The files include officers paid to wave cars through their lanes, an agent who opened gates in the border fence for smugglers, officers accused of searching government databases for people under investigation, and allegations of abuse of people in custody.

Frey also looks at the Laredo Border Patrol agent charged in late October with murdering his wife. And he asks what happens as ICE adds 12,000 new agents with less training and vetting, according to an ACLU report. Who’s guarding the guards?

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/former-cbp-officer-sentenced-smuggling-cocaine-us-virgin-islands-atlanta

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