CBP officers charged after allegedly taking bribes to wave in illegal immigrants

Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers person been charged with taking bribes to fto radical participate the state without showing documents astatine America's busiest borderline crossing.

CBP Officers Farlis Almonte and Ricardo Rodriguez worked astatine the San Ysidro Port of Entry and prosecutors accidental they fto dozens of vehicles carrying amerciable immigrants walk done without due checks successful speech for thousands of dollars.

According to tribunal documents unsealed Thursday, investigators recovered telephone messages betwixt the officers and quality smugglers successful Mexico. They besides recovered ample unexplained currency deposits successful the officers’ slope accounts.

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In 1 lawsuit caught connected surveillance video, a car stopped astatine a checkpoint with 2 radical inside, but lone the operator was officially recorded arsenic entering the U.S., prosecutors said.

A checkpoint earlier crossing into the United States astatine San Ysidro Port of Entry successful Tijuana, Mexico (Francisco Vega/Getty Images)

When Almonte was arrested, investigators besides allegedly seized astir $70,000 successful currency they judge his woman was trying to instrumentality to Tijuana. Prosecutors accidental helium whitethorn look much charges, including wealth laundering and trying to fell evidence, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

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"Any Customs and Border Protection cause who helps smugglers is breaking their oath and putting our nationalist information astatine risk," said Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Haden.

Vehicles queue astatine the San Ysidro crossing larboard successful Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico. (Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images)

Rodriguez’s lawyer, Michael Hawkins, said the lawsuit is inactive successful the aboriginal stages and reminded the nationalist that Rodriguez is presumed innocent. "We look guardant to moving done the existent situation," Hawkins said, calling Rodriguez "hardworking and loyal."

It’s not yet wide if Almonte has a lawyer. In the past 2 years, 5 CBP officers successful the San Diego country person faced akin corruption charges.

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The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), which represents CBP officers, did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.