In El Paso, hundreds of migrant families are turning themselves in to Border Patrol every day, overwhelming federal facilities and personnel.
No discussion of the border crisis is complete without noting that, from the moment Central American migrants cross Mexico's southern border and begin their journey north, the entire process is a massive, multifarious, black-market, money-making machine.
Cartels generally require every man, woman, and child who passes through their territory on the way to the U.S. border pay a tax, which is often included in the total fee smugglers quote to Central American families.
The amount of money cartels are now making off migrant smuggling is substantial.
The reason for the difference in price is that it's much easier for smugglers to transport migrant families intending to claim asylum in the U.S. than migrants who want to enter the country undetected.
Instead of crossing with the migrants and trying to evade Border Patrol, both at the border and at checkpoints further inland, smugglers transporting asylum-seekers need only to take them up to a crossing-point on the Rio Grande and tell them when to go over.
Without a doubt, there is a crisis at the southern border.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/04/border-crisis-money-making-machine-smugglers/
No discussion of the border crisis is complete without noting that, from the moment Central American migrants cross Mexico's southern border and begin their journey north, the entire process is a massive, multifarious, black-market, money-making machine.
Cartels generally require every man, woman, and child who passes through their territory on the way to the U.S. border pay a tax, which is often included in the total fee smugglers quote to Central American families.
The amount of money cartels are now making off migrant smuggling is substantial.
The reason for the difference in price is that it's much easier for smugglers to transport migrant families intending to claim asylum in the U.S. than migrants who want to enter the country undetected.
Instead of crossing with the migrants and trying to evade Border Patrol, both at the border and at checkpoints further inland, smugglers transporting asylum-seekers need only to take them up to a crossing-point on the Rio Grande and tell them when to go over.
Without a doubt, there is a crisis at the southern border.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/04/border-crisis-money-making-machine-smugglers/
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