Non Mexican illegals growing problem in South Texas
AP/Houston Chronicle:
The second aspect is much more sinister. I have had several recent post on stash houses and mass human trafficking where routine traffic stops turn into something out of the Keystone Kops where 20 people might pour out of one SUV. I believe these people have become the new contraband for the cartels. They catch them on the northbound train coming up the coast from Central America and shake them down for money before bringing them into the company.
Police in Houston have found as many as 40 people in one stash house. From South Texas to Oklahoma police are encountering the mass human trafficking operations that suggest that problem is much worse than the Obama administration is willing to admit. They are being transported in rental trucks, stolen pickups and SUVs. The people transporting the illegals rarely stop and often try to escape from pursuit. At least one vehicle wrecked when an aerial interdiction effort fired on the vehicle.
Non-Mexican illegal immigrants account for a slender majority of the agency's recent apprehensions in South Texas, Border Patrol officials said Friday.
They're coming mainly from Central American countries, including El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, saidRosendo Hinojosa, chief of the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector.
"Usually, about 35 percent of the population that this sector catches" is non-Mexican migrants, Hinojosa said. "Right now we are trending above that. We're about 50/50 right now. There is no indication that this will be a long-term phenomenon. It's just too early to tell."
From October 2011 to July 31, agents apprehended more than 40,000 non-Mexican migrants, compared to about 39,000 individuals from Mexico. The number of non-Mexican migrants apprehended during the same 10-month period a year earlier was about 16,000.
Hinojosa said the figures are unusual but not unheard of, as his sector, which spans 17,000 square miles, traditionally has been an entry point for illegal immigrants from Central America.
"Central Americans have always been a staple, if you will, of our apprehensions. So, it seems that they are continuing that trend," he said.
...There are at least two drivers to the increase in illegals from Central America. The first is Mexican immigration law, which as I understand it, does not deport illegal aliens, but gives them 30 days to get out of the country. That being the case, they proceed north to try to make it to the US rather than go back to their country of origin.
The second aspect is much more sinister. I have had several recent post on stash houses and mass human trafficking where routine traffic stops turn into something out of the Keystone Kops where 20 people might pour out of one SUV. I believe these people have become the new contraband for the cartels. They catch them on the northbound train coming up the coast from Central America and shake them down for money before bringing them into the company.
Police in Houston have found as many as 40 people in one stash house. From South Texas to Oklahoma police are encountering the mass human trafficking operations that suggest that problem is much worse than the Obama administration is willing to admit. They are being transported in rental trucks, stolen pickups and SUVs. The people transporting the illegals rarely stop and often try to escape from pursuit. At least one vehicle wrecked when an aerial interdiction effort fired on the vehicle.
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