A top official at the Department of Homeland Security has admitted the federal government's catch-and-release policies are helping the cartels grow rich by ushering more of their migrant clients into American jobs.
The admissions came from Blas Nunez-Neto, who is Alejandro Mayorkas' deputy for border and immigration policy at DHS:. We see migrants now routinely paying smuggling organizations vast sums of money - often more than $10,000 to $15,000 - to facilitate their journey to the border.
This is so lucrative that we are now seeing the drug cartels increasingly becoming a key player in not just collecting taxes for people who transit through their territory - which is what we saw historically - but actually moving people and becoming deeply involved in human smuggling, not just in Mexico, but throughout the region, including, you know, in Colombia and Darien [Gap] region.
The agency will never be able to quickly process the migrants who pay the cartels to deliver them into U.S. jobs, Krikorian said.
The cartels are also using these quasi-legal pathways - such as the CBP One sidedoor in the border - to get their paying clients into U.S. jobs.
This new "Debt bondage" business allows the cartels to continue extracting more wealth from migrants in the United States.
While Congress fails to act, Krikorian said, rational migrants join with the cartels to move into the United States: "They're ordinary folks who are making perfectly rational decisions given the incentives that we have created."
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