Washington (CNN) -- Mexican drug cartels have used cash and sexual favors as tools to corrupt U.S. border and customs agents, an inspector general investigation has found. 

In exchange, agents allow contraband or unauthorized immigrants through inspection lanes, protect or escort traffickers or leak sensitive information, said Charles Edwards, acting inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security. 

Testifying before a Senate subcommittee, Edwards cited the Zetas drug cartel as one of the leaders "involved increasingly in systematic corruption." 

He did not elaborate on how non-cash methods of corruption, like sexual favors, have been used to corrupt agents. 

Since October 2004, 127 Customs and Border Protection employees have been arrested or indicted for acts of corruption, said agency Commissioner Alan Bersin, speaking at the same hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs. 

Mexican President Felipe Calderon's offensive against the drug cartels, combined with a surge in the hiring of border agents in recent years, have multiplied the risks of corruption, Bersin said. 

Today, the Border Patrol counts more than 20,700 agents, more than double its size in 2004. Bersin implied that the rapid hiring spree may have come at the cost of hiring less qualified agents. 

"The accelerated hiring pace under which we operated between 2006 and 2008 -- and, frankly, mistakes from which we are learning -- exposed critical organizational and individual vulnerabilities within CBP," he said. 

To face this challenge, the commissioner touted the passage of the Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010, which requires that by 2013, all the agency's law enforcement applicants must receive a polygraph test before being hired. It also calls for periodic reinvestigations into the background of its agents. 
who is the president of Mexico?
How many are working for border patrol today?
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How many employees have been arrested?
Between what years was the higher hiring rate?
who is the acting inspector general mentioned?
what organization does he work for?
Is cash used for corruption?
what about non-cash?
what is the non-cash example used?
what drug cartel is mentioned?
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Felipe Calderon
Mexican President Felipe Calderon
more than 20,700 agents,
Today, the Border Patrol counts more than 20,700 agents,
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Today, the Border Patrol counts more than 20,700 agents, more than double its size in 2004
127
 127 Customs and Border Protection employees have been arrested or indicted for acts of corruption, 
between 2006 and 2008
The accelerated hiring pace under which we operated between 2006 and 2008
Charles Edwards,
 Charles Edwards, acting inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security. 
Department of Homeland Security.
Charles Edwards, acting inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security. 
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 Mexican drug cartels have used cash and sexual favors as tools to corrupt U.S. border and customs agents,
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Mexican drug cartels have used cash and sexual favors as tools to corrupt U.S. border and customs agents
sexual favors
He did not elaborate on how non-cash methods of corruption, like sexual favors, have been used to corrupt agents. 
Zetas drug cartel
Edwards cited the Zetas drug cartel as one of the leaders
U.S. border and customs agents,
as tools to corrupt U.S. border and customs agents,
a polygraph test
all the agency's law enforcement applicants must receive a polygraph test before being hired
by 2013
which requires that by 2013
he Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010,
he Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010,
Alan Bersin
 agency Commissioner Alan Bersin
a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs.
 speaking at the same hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs. 

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In exchange, agents allow contraband or unauthorized immigrants through inspection lanes, protect or escort traffickers or leak sensitive information
allow contraband or unauthorized immigrants through inspection lanes,
In exchange, agents allow contraband or unauthorized immigrants through inspection lanes, protect or escort traffickers or leak sensitive information,
systematic corruption.
, Edwards cited the Zetas drug cartel as one of the leaders "involved increasingly in systematic corruption." 