The devil made me do it.

There is a continuing problem along the U.S. border with Mexico. Law enforcement and local government officials on the U.S. side are selling out to the Mexican drug cartels. In Columbus, New Mexico, a town of 2000, the mayor, the police chief, a city trustee and nine others were arrested. All have pleaded guilty to gun-smuggling to the Mexicans. Over the last year and a half, nine other border town lawmen have been charged with allowing guns and drugs to cross the border between Laredo and Brownsville. 

Javier Lozano, the municipal judge in Columbus, says drug cartels are corrupting Americans. I disagree. The Americans were already corrupt -- the Mexicans were just the first ones to come up with their price.

"Easy money tempting officials on U.S. side." The Dallas Morning News; May 16, 2012; p. 3A.