Circolo Luce Del Sud » Hired by Customs, but Working for the Cartels

... one drug trafficker with ties to organized crime in Mexico described how he had enticed the agent, a close friend from high school in Del Rio, Tex., who was entering the training academy, to join his crew smuggling tons of marijuana into Texas. ... Right now, only a fraction â€" 10 percent or so â€" of Customs and Border Protection recruits are given a polygraph screening that federal investigators say has proved effective in weeding out people with drug ties and other ...