Illegal job seekers

 Virginia Allen:

Brandon says he left Cameroon on March 15 and crossed the border from Mexico into California four days later.

He knows it’s illegal to cross the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry, as he did, Brandon told The Daily Signal. But, he said, he did so because the “situation in my home country is not so good.”

Brandon, 25, didn’t provide his last name and declined to pose for a photo.

The illegal alien from the Central African nation said he has a cousin in Minnesota who helped him navigate the process of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, a journey that cost him about $1,600.


After he entered California from Mexico, Brandon said, the U.S. Border Patrol processed him in about 48 hours. Agents checked his skin and asked him for his name and basic information, he said, but not why he had come to America.

The Cameroonian was one of about 120 illegal aliens released by the Border Patrol on Thursday morning at Iris Avenue Transit Center in San Diego. He also was one of the few who spoke good English.
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Other illegal immigrants told The Daily Signal that they were from Afghanistan, China, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Russia, Somalia, Togo, and Turkey.
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Tornike Mkheidze is from the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Mkheidze said he first traveled to London from Georgia, then to Cancun, Mexico, and finally to Tijuana before crossing the border into the U.S.

His trip cost thousands of dollars, he said, but he had to pay someone only $350 to show him the way to walk across the southern border from Mexico into California.

Mkheidze’s final destination is New York City, where he says he has a brother-in-law.

Why did he leave Georgia? For money, he replied. He hopes to get his green card in America.

Like Brandon, Mkheidze said he knew he broke the law entering the U.S. in the way he did. Border Patrol agents didn’t ask why he entered the U.S. or whether he has a criminal record, he said.
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Brandon does not sound like a name for someone who is a native if Cameron.  He obviously had a source of funds to get to the US. 

See also:

Poll: Majority of Hispanics Disagree with Biden, Say Calling Laken Riley’s Alleged Killer ‘Illegal’ Is Appropriate

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