Bah. It's like Mexico: the politicos run cover for the criminals, and the criminals fund the politicos and provide henchmen. Huge drug and human trafficking trade. Illegals just help the stew (plus the criminals are illegals, hidden among the others). Larger objectives are nice, but true corruption is based on "What have you done for me lately?"

I saw the parallel immediately after listening to the woman Senator from Mexico who called out the mutual dependency of Mexican politics and Mexican crime cartels. This goes up from mayors to governors.