Drug smugglers use migrants to distract border agents from their illicit cargo

Washington Examiner:

Smuggling foreigners into the United States earns transnational criminal organizations billions of dollars. Every year, hundreds of thousands of migrants shell out anywhere from $3,500 to $50,000 to get themselves into America illegally.

“The smuggling organizations, they’re in it for the money," said Paul Beeson, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Joint Task Force's West division. "They’re not in it because they’re some altruistic folks who think they’re doing a service. The people, they’re a product. They’re chattel.”

But the crime organizations are not just moving people to make a few thousand dollars each time. They're moving human cargo because they've discovered how to leverage that operation in a way that helps ensure the success of their real money-maker, drug smuggling.

Drug trafficking became harder after President Trump took office, but traffickers have been surging migrants to the border for about a year to flood certain regions.

“The way they use families and children to tie up Border Patrol resources while they bring narcotics through an adjacent point of the border ... creates operational challenges and that’s exactly why we’re trying to prevent the vulnerable populations from crossing between ports of entry illegally because it takes time and energy and focus away from the hardened smugglers and criminals,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said during a recent trip to the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas.

Because federal law says all illegal immigrants must be apprehended and processed by Border Patrol, the surge this spring has forced agents and other resources to be diverted to regions where illegal crossings are most common, and this allows drug cartels to move their narcotics through spots that are left unguarded.
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They are the human shields for the drug trade.  The Democrats who support this migration either do not know or do not care about the associated problem caused by the migration.  All Democrats see is potential clients to their dependency class.