Cartels smuggling remnants of caravan into US

 Washington Examiner:

The largest-ever caravan of migrants to head to the U.S. southern border broke down days into its journey from southern Mexico, appearing unsuccessful.

But three federal and local law enforcement officials based in South Texas’s Del Rio region told the Washington Examiner on Monday that many from the caravan successfully evaded Mexican authorities and were able to cross the border illegally into the United States over the past several days.

“I talked to one of our federal partners early this morning,” said Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez of Val Verde County, Texas, whose county runs up against 110 miles of the Mexican border. “They’re getting remnants of the caravan. Yesterday, they had just shy of 2,000 people apprehended in the sector, which is probably an all-time high for the day.”

Martinez, a Democrat, said most illegal crossings are taking place about 50 miles southeast of Del Rio, a small border town where tens of thousands of primarily Haitian migrants came across and set up an encampment outside town last September. Downriver, closer to Eagle Pass, Martinez and a Border Patrol agent both said a group of 500 migrants was apprehended Saturday. Border Patrol considers a large group to be 100 or more people, making Saturday’s apprehension significant.

Over the weekend, a group of about 200 migrants from the disbanded caravan was apprehended outside of Eagle Pass, the three officials said.

"Those are the ones that are just turning themselves in. That's all that at this time can be accounted for," Martinez added.

The massive groups are pushed across the border by cartels, whom migrants pay to get them across the border. Cartels, which are cross-border criminal organizations that smuggle people and drugs, took advantage of the flailing caravan as it fell apart when the Mexican government offered people humanitarian visas to reside and work in the country. In addition to charging migrants a fee to get to the U.S., they use migrants to divert Border Patrol to certain areas, allowing them to funnel criminals and drugs across unguarded areas.

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 Texas should ship them to the beach in Deleware where Biden is always vacationing.  Biden's immigration policy is a disgrace.

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