A Border Patrol agent was sentenced this week to a year and a half in prison for trying to sell a free pass into the U.S. to an illegal immigrant.
Border Patrol agents hold a news conference prior to a media tour of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge in Donna, Texas, May 2, 2019. ** FILE **
But the migrant went to U.S. investigators after she said she found $500 missing from her property bag, and authorities were waiting for Castillo when he showed up to make the $5,000 sale of immigration papers. The illegal, who holds Mexican and Salvadoran citizenship, was being held at the border in preparation to be returned to Mexico. She’d been nabbed twice before by border agents but had no criminal charges on her record.
She said he also ripped open her sealed property bag and stole $500 from her. In Mexico, she realized the money was gone. She alerted U.S. border officers, who notified the FBI.
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