Human smugglers brag openly on social media about how easy it is to smuggle immigrants into the United States, while frustrated Border Patrol agents stand by, unable to stop them under a toothless President Biden, video obtained by The Post shows. Post.
The confrontation clip, posted on YouTube and sent to The Post by a Border Patrol source, shows a long line of migrant men casually climbing over a gap in the US-Mexico border wall, flashing smiles and thumbs up. looking up at the camera while crossing without being stopped or questioned.
A caption in Spanish that accompanies the video reads: “Achieving your goals, the gentlemen,” followed by two praying emojis.
The bright green text overlaid on the clip also flippantly describes the illegal crossing as a “desert adventure.”
The footage was filmed on May 27 near Lukeville, Arizona, a remote outpost about two and a half hours from Tucson that has become the busiest point of illegal entry into the country, with 1,300 people a day crossing into the United States. in this area, according to federal authorities. Statistics.
Multiple social media channels feature smugglers and their “adventures” at the border, as they put it.
Border Patrol agents say smugglers make these videos to promote how easy it is to cross the US-Mexico border.
It’s “free information for everyone,” said a fed-up agent who asked not to be named.
Meanwhile, The Post witnessed a smuggler brazenly escorting a dozen illegal immigrants through open gates in the border wall near Lukeville on Thursday.
Migrants led by smugglers enter the country.DANIEL WILLIAM MCKNIGHT
The cartel runner even stopped to record the illegal crossing on his phone, the photos show, presumably to use later as social media advertising to encourage more potential immigrants seeking help to reach the United States.
It’s a lucrative business for the cartels, with immigrants paying between $200 and $6,000 a head, officials said.
Smugglers in the Arizona area are also well organized, providing GPS coordinates to paying customers to help them reach the remote Lukeville outpost, according to border sources.
Smugglers take advantage of the 114 open doors in the border wall in Arizona to bring paying immigrants into the country.DANIEL WILLIAM MCKNIGHT
The steady stream of illegal crossings comes as The Post revealed that US officials have inexplicably welded open 114 huge gates along the Arizona border to allow water to flow freely during the annual monsoon season, which normally runs from June to September.
However, the open floodgates have allowed a flood of asylum seekers, and the cartels seized the opportunity for easy access.
“It’s not even raining. There is no point in leaving them open,” an outraged official told the Post.
A migrant smuggler, seen on the right side of the image, directs illegal immigrants into the country.Daniel William McKnight
Last month, according to federal statistics, 42,561 migrants were encountered in the Tucson Border Patrol sector, which includes Lukeville, a huge jump from the 27,294 encounters in June.
“I think they’re choosing this location because we were understaffed,” a Border Patrol source said.
“We can’t cover all the gaps in the shift, especially now. I’m sure the sign says: ‘Send them [migrants] here. We will take your money. We’ll get them no matter what.
In this part of the border, migrants turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents, not run from them.Daniel William McKnight
“When they [migrants] When they enter, they call their relatives in their home country and tell them: ‘You have to come.’ Go to this place.’”
Border Patrol agents have blamed President Biden and his lax border policies.
“Everything has changed since [President Biden] He took control. This part of the border wall was built four years ago. Now we’re just letting people through,” an agent recently complained to the Post about the surge at the Arizona border.
The gates are open on a 36-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border, giving migrants and smugglers plenty of opportunities to enter.Daniel William McKnight
“They [the migrants] they commit a federal crime, we charge them, we don’t convict them. They don’t return them. They get a credible fear interview, they get a [asylum] court date years from now.”
Once immigrants set foot on American soil in Arizona, they don’t even try to avoid federal immigration agents.
Instead, they seek out agents so they can turn themselves in with the hope of claiming asylum and being able to remain in the country until the courts rule on their case, a process that can take years.
It is so easy that even children can do it. Underage immigrants commonly cross through the open doors in Arizona.Daniel William McKnight
“90% of what we get is this,” said one agent, referring to the immigrants who had turned themselves in. “This is what is driving the increase in this area right now.”
This is despite President Biden’s harsh words that anyone showing up at the border requires an appointment via the CBP One app.
“What we are seeing is a lot of large groups wanting to turn themselves in,” Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America previously told The Post.
“Tucson has also traditionally been the place where smugglers concentrate Mexicans and Central Americans who do not want to be detected. Now they see 100 people at a time who are not fleeing, people with families, who despite Biden’s asylum rule, are trying to turn themselves in to apply for asylum. They have bracelets.”
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