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Podcast: True Crime Reporter
Episode: Cartels Offered a Choice Between Two Evils. Take The Silver or Take the Lead.
Description: Ed Calderon says the incomplete wall on the U.S. Southern border with Mexico is like Swiss cheese.
"It won't stop any of the growing threats posed by the Mexican drug cartels," he says.
Ed Calderon spent a dozen years working in counter-narcotics and organized crime investigations in the northern border region of Mexico.
Ed Calderon - Former Mexican Counter Narcotics Officer Fled For His Daughter's Life To The U.S.
The former state police officer knew he had to leave when the leadership of his drug squad under a new presidential administration told him, “You can take the silver, or...